On 1/18/17 6:09 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:
That would not be a productive exercise for me, or most people who just want some idea of what to expect in terms of behavior when they write and use a Stable function (Immutable and Volatile seem fairly easy to reason about).
Yeah, this isn't an uncommon question for users to have, and "read the code" isn't a great answer.
If there's a README or comment block that describes this, that might be a reasonable compromise.
It would certainly be useful to document how to push the planner in the right direction as well. I didn't realize that SELECT ... (SELECT slow_stable_function()) was a thing until reading this thread.
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