Re: 'CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION' behavior whenever a transaction is running

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От David G. Johnston
Тема Re: 'CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION' behavior whenever a transaction is running
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Ответ на 'CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION' behavior whenever a transaction is running  (PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org>)
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On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 12:50 PM PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> wrote:
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:

Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/sql-createfunction.html
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The page does not mention what is the default behavior whenever a function
is replaced while the same function is being used in another
query/transaction.

Does the query fail? Does the 'CREATE OR REPLACE' operation fail? Does the
query finish before the function is replaced?

As a side note, my interest in this came from our need to use 'C-Language
Functions', aka binary functions, so it would be neat to also add what is
the behavior on those as well, if there's any difference.

IIUC pg_proc is administered using MVCC behavior just like any other table.  What you experience will be subject to your isolation mode but in no case will a single command's execution see different versions nor will such execution prevent the "replace"ment of the function with a newer version.

Absent guidance to the contrary I wouldn't expect C language functions to behave any differently than any others.  But that just pertains to the "REPLACE" aspect.  You need to read the notes about C language functions to get the rest of the story (and you likely wouldn't need to "replace" a C-langauge function entry because of this different loading/compiling mechanism). Namely:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/xfunc-c.html#XFUNC-C-DYNLOAD

In short, C-language functions, referenced simply by name and module, and pre-compiled, do not have a mechanism to invalidate the cache like pl/pgsql functions do.  Other languages may involve yet other dynamics.

David J.



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