Re: Missing OID rant

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
To: John Sidney-Woollett <johnsw(at)wardbrook(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Missing OID rant
Date: 2004-04-22 16:04:57
Message-ID: 20040422160457.GA3292@dcc.uchile.cl
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On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 02:07:39PM +0100, John Sidney-Woollett wrote:

> There are loads of instances (db in flux, move table to another schema
> etc) why you might want/need to drop a table, and recreate it. But in
> Postgres, you have to reapply all DDL statements to the db that referenced
> that dropped/recreated object - this is just not fun!

Actually, in your example the only thing you need to do is close the
connection and reconnect. I agree it would be nice to recompile the
function automatically, but it's not as bad as you put it.

--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"Sallah, I said NO camels! That's FIVE camels; can't you count?"
(Indiana Jones)

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