Oliver Jowett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> I should have said within a single statement instead of within a single >> transaction.
> As I understand Tom's earlier explanation of this, the definition is > even more narrow: stable functions only need to return the same value > across a single tablescan. > It might be useful to have some variant of stable (or perhaps just a > change in semantics) such that the function returns the same value for > identical parameters until the next CommandCounterIncrement. In practice I think these are equivalent definitions. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly