Re: to_date() marked stable?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > I was wondering why we mark to_date() as stable and not immutable?
> 
> Do you really want to guarantee that it isn't, and never will be,
> affected by timezone, datestyle, lc_time, etc?  In particular it seems
> likely that somebody will eventually complain that since to_char can
> output localized month/day names according to lc_time, to_date should be
> able to read them.
> 
> > Are there people using to_date in indexes or partition functions where
> > changing it to immutable would be useful?
> 
> By definition, there are not, and I don't recall many complaints from
> people trying to.  On the other hand, if we mark it immutable and then
> in future wish to go back to allowing environment dependencies, we will
> have to risk breaking working applications.

OK  --- without user requests, it seems pointless to make a change here.

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