Re: cache invalidation for PL/pgsql functions

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> rhaas=# create table foo (a int);
>> CREATE TABLE
>> rhaas=# create or replace function test (x foo) returns int as $$begin
>> return x.b; end$$ language plpgsql;
>> CREATE FUNCTION
>> rhaas=# alter table foo add column b int;
>> ALTER TABLE
>> rhaas=# select test(null::foo);
>> ERROR:  record "x" has no field "b"
>> LINE 1: SELECT x.b
>>                ^
>> QUERY:  SELECT x.b
>> CONTEXT:  PL/pgSQL function test(foo) line 1 at RETURN
>
> I believe that this was one of the cases I had in mind when I previously
> proposed that we stop using PLPGSQL_DTYPE_ROW entirely for composite-type
> variables, and make them use PLPGSQL_DTYPE_REC (that is, the same code
> paths used for RECORD).
>
> As I recall, that proposal was shot down with no investigation whatsoever,
> on the grounds that it might possibly make some cases slower.

I don't know whether that would help or not.  I was thinking about
whether PLs should be using CacheRegisterSyscacheCallback() to notice
when types that they care about change.

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