Re: DISCARD ALL ; stored procedures

Excerpts from Stephen Frost's message of vie ene 07 15:29:52 -0300 2011:
> * Stephen Frost (sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net) wrote:
> > * Robert Haas (robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> > > > Making it part of DISCARD PLANS; and back-patching it to 8.3 where
> > > > DISCARD was introduced would be awesome for me. :)
> > >
> > > I'd need to look at this more closely before committing anything, but
> > > at first blush I think that's reasonable. Have a patch?
> >
> > To be honest, I was fully expecting a response of "that's hard to do."
>
> Soo, yeah, I found the "this is hard" part. Basically, the plan
> cacheing, etc, is all handled by the stored procedures themselves, and
> we havn't got any way to tell a PL "destroy all your plans." We might
> be able to hack up fmgr to throw away all references to functions, but
> that wouldn't release the memory they use up, making 'discard plans;'
> leak like a sieve.

What this discussion suggests to me is that cached plans need to be
tracked by a resource owner that's linked to the function. The problem
I see with this idea is figure out what module would keep track of
resowners that need to be reset ... Other than that I think it should
be straightforward :-)

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