Document effect of constant folding on CASE.

Back-patch to all supported versions.

Laurenz Albe

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index 4c5af4b83c870410b12face9da582cbcd0fe99d1..8cf538556168f631cee021412fb3834ff226d40f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -10563,6 +10563,16 @@ SELECT a,
 SELECT ... WHERE CASE WHEN x <> 0 THEN y/x > 1.5 ELSE false END;
 
    
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+    
+     As described in , functions and
+     operators marked IMMUTABLE can be evaluated when
+     the query is planned rather than when it is executed.  This means
+     that constant parts of a subexpression that is not evaluated during
+     query execution might still be evaluated during query planning.
+    
+