Tanel Poder wrote:
Boolean is a datatype existing and usable in Oracle.
> Deterministic is an Oracle way to tell a function is deterministic, i.e.
> always returning the same result on the same input. Required for FBIs for
> example.
> http://tahiti.oracle.com

Could you please kindly provide an example of its usage in SQL. Please create
an FBI using the original function below (as is, no modifications or wrappers).
It would be really intersting how "deterministic" functionality would work
for a PL/SQL function that returns BOOLEAN datatype. Thank you!
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boolean is not SQL datatype and it's unclear what "deterministic"
means here.

Mladen Gogala wrote:

create or replace function
isnumeric(str varchar2) return boolean deterministic
as
 num number:=0;
begin
 num:=to_number(str);
 return(true);
exception
 when others then
return(false);
end;
/


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