Re: BUG #19409: Function jsonb_strip_nulls() changed from immutable to stable.

On 2026-02-16 Mo 3:19 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 2026-02-16 Mo 11:48 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Andrew Dunstan writes:
>>> In penance for this I have worked up a mechanism to generate
>>> default-setting statements from pg_proc.dat that I will post separately
>>> about in -hackers. In the meantime, I guess we should fix it in release
>>> 18 and master, with a release note that people might need to do a manual
>>> update if affected, along the lines of
>>>      update pg_proc set provolatile = 'i' where oid in (3261,3262);
>> Yeah, the $64 question is what to do in REL_18_STABLE.  In master
>> we can commit this with a catversion bump, but we can't change
>> v18's catversion.  I think I agree that we should just change v18's
>> system_functions.sql anyway.  That will at least solve it for people
>> upgrading in future.
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> OK, barring objections I will make that happen in a day or two.
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In view of later discussions, fixing master seems pointless, as that 
code is going away. When it does we should do a catversion bump.


So I'm just planning to patch v18 now.


cheers


andrew

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