Re: Patch: plan invalidation vs stored procedures

Martin Pihlak <martin(dot)pihlak(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Changing statement result type is also currently prohibited in
> StorePreparedStatement. There maybe good reasons for this,

How about "the SQL spec says so"?

Admittedly, it's a bit of a jump from views to prepared statements,
but the spec is perfectly clear that altering a table doesn't alter
any views dependent on it: SQL99 11.11 <add column definition> saith

NOTE 189 - The addition of a column to a table has no effect on
any existing <query expression> included in a view descriptor,
<triggered action> included in a trigger descriptor, or <search
condition> included in a constraint descriptor because any
implicit column references in these descriptor elements are
syntactically substituted by explicit column references under
the Syntax Rules of Subclause 7.11, "<query specification>".
Furthermore, by implication (from the lack of any General Rules
to the contrary), the meaning of a column reference is never
retroactively changed by the addition of a column subsequent
to the invocation of the <SQL schema statement> containing that
column reference.

and there was a comparable restriction in SQL92. You'd need to make a
pretty strong argument why prepared statements should behave differently
from views to convince me that changing this is a good idea.

regards, tom lane