deterministic mysql_MySQL中的确定性函数

I got confused with a seemingly simple concept. Mysql defines deterministic function as a function that

always produces the same result for the same input parameters

So in my understanding, functions like

CREATE FUNCTION foo (val INT) READS SQL DATA

BEGIN

DECLARE retval INT;

SET retval = (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM table_1 WHERE field_1 = val);

RETURN retval;

END;

are not deterministic (there is no guarantee that delete/update/insert does not happen between 2 calls to the function). At the same time, I saw many functions which do pretty much the same, i.e. return value based on result of queries, and declared as DETERMINISTIC. It looks like I'm missing something very basic.

Could anyone clarify this iss