On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Keean Schupke <ke...@fry-it.com> wrote: > Why does it need to be persisted? I would prefer the database to be > stateless. Obviously all users of the database need to use the same > function.
And if they don't use exactly the same function, maybe due to a transient bug, the index is silently and permanently corrupted, until all affected rows happen to be updated again? That doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
