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Re: ERROR: functions in index expression must be marked IMMUTABLE

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On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 28 February 2017 at 15:59, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 02/28/2017 07:30 AM, Sven R. Kunze wrote:
On 28.02.2017 15:40, Adrian Klaver wrote:
[explanation of why date casting and to_datetime don't work]

Why is to_date not immutable?

Not sure, but if I where to hazard a guess, from the source code in formatting.c:

https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=src/backend/utils/adt/formatting.c;h=e552c8d20b61a082049068d2f8d776e35fef1179;hb=HEAD

​Would the fact that you can have month names in to_date strings make it dependent on current locale?


​That would seem to be it.

cache_locale_time() at the top of DCH_to_char which is in the call stack of the shared parsing code for both to_date and to_timestamp.


Supposedly one could provide a version of to_date that accepts a locale in which to interpret names in the input data - or extend the format string with some kind of "{locale=en_US}" syntax to avoid changing the function signature.

David J.

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