On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Jan Wieck writes:
>
> > For most objects, there is no such "recompile" possible - at
> > least not without storing alot more information than now.
> > Create a function and based on that an operator. Then you
> > drop the function and create another one. Hmmm, pg_operator
> > doesn't have the function name and argument types, it only
> > knows the old functions oid. How do you find the new function
> > from here?
>
> In these cases it'd be a lot simpler (and SQL-comforming) to implement the
> DROP THING ... { RESTRICT | CASCADE } options. This would probably catch
> most honest user errors more cleanly than trying to automatically
> recompile things that perhaps aren't even meant to fit together any
> longer.
Yes, I absolutely agree, and that's the aim of what I'm suggesting...
-alex