Re: refreshing prepared statements after index rebuild

"Uwe Bartels" <uwe(dot)bartels(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> - just dropping the corrupt index results in errors returned while executing
> the existing prepared statements

If you were running 8.3 it would Just Work, so I take it you're not.

> - restart of the postgres server works of course, but ... you know. that's
> the last solution.
> - i cannot currently cycle all jdbc connection pools, and bouncing the
> app-servers & daemons does heavier damage than cycling the database

I'm afraid those are your only options :-( --- pre 8.3, there's no way
short of starting fresh sessions to get rid of cached plans for prepared
statements.

regards, tom lane