On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 02:26:23PM +0100, Donald Fraser wrote:
> Is the returned value of a function defined as IMMUTABLE cached
> globally? In other words could postgresql potentially return a cached
> value obtained from one client session to a different client session?
Return values from functions are never cached at all, not even for
immutable functions. The mutability flag (currently) is only used for
deciding the "optimizability" of the function within the query's
execution.
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