Re: problem with volatile functions in subselects ?

> > There's been some talk about prohibiting flattening if there are any
> > volatile functions in the subselect's targetlist, but nothing's been
> > done about that.  Disabling flattening is a sufficiently big hit to
> > the planner's optimization ability that it shouldn't be done lightly.
> >
> >                         regards, tom lane
> >
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-10/msg00396.php
>
> maybe a guc?
>

is this worth trying? maybe it's fair to say is to late for 8.2 but
maybe it can be qeued for 8.3...

i think i can do this in 1 or 2 days...

BTW, can you think in a good name for a GUC for this?

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Jaime Casanova

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