Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 9:15 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Greg Nancarrow <gregn4422@gmail.com> writes:
>>> I'm curious. The FmgrBuiltin struct includes the "strict" flag, so
>>> that would "lock down the value" of the strict flag, wouldn't it?
>> It does, but that's much more directly a property of the function's
>> C code than parallel-safety is.
> I'm not sure I agree with that, but I think having the "strict" flag
> in FmgrBuiltin isn't that nice either.
Yeah, if we could readily do without it, we probably would. But the
function call mechanism itself is responsible for implementing strictness,
so it *has* to have that flag available.
regards, tom lane
