Hi all, after several weeks away I downloaded today the 8.0rc1 and I tested it with our application.
I'm having a bounce of errors because IMMUTABLE and STABLE attributes for some of my functions. Let me explain with an example, what I do is ( plpgsql )
my_id_user = sp_id_user( a_login );
IF my_id_user > 0 THEN RETURN -5; -- error code for existing user END IF;
INSERT INTO users ( login ) VALUES ( a_login );
my_id_user = sp_id_user( a_login );
now here I can continue my function using the my_id_user, unfortunatelly that sp_id_user is declared as IMMUTABLE this mean that at the second call of sp_id_user my_id_user will not contain the user id.
This was working untill 7.4, is there a way to force sp_id_user to be reevaluated ? That function is declared immutable because is ofthen used in expresssion like this:
select * from user_data where id_user = sp_id_user('login');
I believe is a good idea write in the release notes, with a bigger font, this optimization about stable and immutable functions.
Regards Gaetano Mendola
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