>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>> convert_to is a builtin function. If there's a bug here, it's that
>> convert_to is defined as stable rather than immutable. (Sure it
>> depends on server_encoding, but that can't exactly change... if
>> there's any other reason why it's not immutable, I can't think
>> what it is.)
Tom> The conversion itself is dependent on changeable catalog
Tom> entries, ie, pg_conversion. So "stable" seems the appropriate
Tom> marking to me.
That sounds like a bit of a stretch to me... we treat lots of stuff as
immutable which is actually easier to change than pg_conversion entries
(OS locale definitions for example).
--
Andrew.
