On 04/17/2014 07:07 PM, David G Johnston wrote:
>
> On 04/17/2014 05:24 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > On the whole I'm not sure this is something we ought to get into.
> > If you really need a fresh session, maybe you should start a
> > fresh session.
>
>
> Isn't the whole point to avoid the reconnection overhead, especially for
> connection poolers? DISCARD ALL shouldn't cause any cleanup that
> wouldn't otherwise occur when a session disconnects. True global data
> (not just session global) should be excluded.
The GD is global to the session only (Like temp tables).
>
> A better wording of the promise would be: "discard all" leaves the
> session in the same state it would be in if the underlying connection
> were dropped and re-established.
Except that it doesn't.
JD
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