On Feb 26, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On ons, 2012-02-22 at 10:56 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote: >> The trouble with "leakproof" is that it >> doesn't point to what it is that's not leaking, which is information >> rather than memory, as many might imagine (and I did) without further >> hints. I'm not sure any single English word would be as descriptive as >> I'd like. > > Well, we have RETURNS NULL ON NULL INPUT, so maybe DOES NOT LEAK > INFORMATION. ;-)
If you are willing to go full length, then the computer science term is "referential transparency", no? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referential_transparency_(computer_science) So a function could be described as "REFERENTIALLY TRANSPARENT". Cheers, M -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
