Re: Caching of Queries

From: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us
Cc: matt(at)ymogen(dot)net, pg(at)rbt(dot)ca, awerman2(at)hotmail(dot)com, scottakirkwood(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Caching of Queries
Date: 2004-10-07 07:18:42
Message-ID: 20041007.161842.77062117.t-ishii@sra.co.jp
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> Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
> > First, it's not a particular problem with pgpool. As far as I know any
> > connection pool solution has exactly the same problem. Second, it's
> > easy to fix if PostgreSQL provides a functionarity such as:"drop all
> > temporary tables if any".
>
> I don't like that definition exactly --- it would mean that every time
> we add more backend-local state, we expect client drivers to know to
> issue the right incantation to reset that kind of state.
>
> I'm thinking we need to invent a command like "RESET CONNECTION" that
> resets GUC variables, drops temp tables, forgets active NOTIFYs, and
> generally does whatever else needs to be done to make the session state
> appear virgin. When we add more such state, we can fix it inside the
> backend without bothering clients.

Great. It's much better than I propose.

> I now realize that our "RESET ALL" command for GUC variables was not
> fully thought out. We could possibly redefine it as doing the above,
> but that might break some applications ...
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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