Re: a word-choice question

On 12/06/2015 11:03 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net> writes:
>> In PL/Java's function annotations, 'type' has been used for the
>> volatility category:
>> @Function(type=IMMUTABLE)
>> public static String hello() { return "Hello, world!"; }
>> It seems a bit infelicitous because you would probably sooner guess that
>> 'type' was telling you something about the function's _data_ type
> Yeah ...
>
>> But I've been trying think of something short, clear, preferably
>> monosyllabic, less geeky than 'v8y', and I don't have a winner yet.
> Instead of thinking about "volatility", maybe something based on
> "stability" or "constancy"?  I suppose "const" is too much of a conflict,
> but "stable=IMMUTABLE" doesn't seem awful.
>
>             


I would stick with "volatility". It makes for consistency - pg_proc has 
"provolatile" for example. I think it's a moderately well understood 
term in the Postgres world.

cheers

andrew