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When written, textanycat, anytextcat, quote_literal, and quote_nullable were marked volatile, because they could invoke arbitrary type-specific output functions as part of casting their anyelement arguments to text. Since then, we have defined a project policy that I/O functions must not be volatile, as per commit aab353a60b95aadc00f81da0c6d99bde696c4b75. So these functions can safely be downgraded to stable. Most of the time this makes no difference since they'll get inlined anyway, but as noted by Andrew Dunstan, there are cases where the volatile marking prevents optimizations that the planner does before function inlining. (I think I might have overlooked these functions in the earlier commit on the grounds that inlining would make it moot, but not so --- tgl) This change results in a change in the expected output of the json regression tests, because the planner can now flatten a sub-select that it failed to before. The old output is preferable, but getting that back will require some as-yet-unfinished work on RowExpr handling. Marti Raudsepp
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