Re: plan invalidation vs stored procedures

On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 15:41 +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> 2008/8/6 Hannu Krosing <hannu@krosing.net>:
> > On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 12:13 +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> >> 2008/8/6 Hannu Krosing <hannu@krosing.net>:
> >> > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 16:17 +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> > ..
> >> >> you cannot change header of function. It's same as change C header of
> >> >> function without complete recompilation.
> >> >
> >> > SQL is not C.
> >> >
> >> > You don't have to recompile the whole SQL database when you add columns
> >> > to tables, so why should you need to do it, when you add a column to
> >> > table-returning function ?
> >> >
> >>
> >> I thing, it's possible - but it's neccessary completly new dictionary
> >> with dependencies (some dependencies are dynamic - polymorphic
> >> functions) so it's dificult task.
> >
> > I think that you can safely err on the side of caution, that is, save
> > more dependendcies than actually affected.
> >
> 
> > Or you even add dependencies from inside the pl, either at compile/check
> > or run time (cached of course), so that you hit the exact right function
> > oid and can reuse the function lookup already done.
> >
> actually functions doesn't see into SQL statements - but I though is
> could be hook on new item in plan cache, so there can be some
> registration that try to analyze all called functions from plan and
> add some info to some buffer. There is lot of some. Some have to write
> it :)

Actually I think we need a callback in either execute or verify methods
so that various pl-s can implement adding the dependency.

or maybe not even a callback, pl implementation could just add needed
entries to pg_catalog.pg_shdepend when doing direct function calls. And
it should inspect prepared plans for a list of called functions. the
latter probably needs some help from planner, so that it would be easy
to get a list of function oids used by a plan.

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Hannu