Re: Help with CREATE FUNCTION - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Kip Warner
Subject Re: Help with CREATE FUNCTION
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Msg-id 1461003749.4911.63.camel@thevertigo.com
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In response to Re: Help with CREATE FUNCTION  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mon, 2016-04-18 at 14:19 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> If they might change later, they're not really constants, hm?  The
> usual advice for this sort of thing is to store them in a table.

They're variable only in the sense that they could vary after many
months, but constant enough that treating them as such allows us the
potential benefit of optimization.

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