Re: ERROR: cache lookup failed for relation 17442 (repost)

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl> writes:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 05:07:47PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> A more general issue is that we now have a pile of "catalog inquiry"
>> functions that all make use of backend internal lookups and therefore
>> reflect SnapshotNow behavior to the user.

> Can we pass a Snapshot as a parameter to the internal lookups?  Or set a
> global variable to indicate this is not really a internal lookup, and
> reset it afterwards?

The first seems awfully messy, and the second awfully dangerous.

            regards, tom lane