Re: invalidating cached plans

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: invalidating cached plans
Date: 2005-03-15 05:49:09
Message-ID: 2938.1110865749@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> writes:
> Oliver Jowett wrote:
>> Does this mean that clients that use PREPARE/Parse need to handle "plan
>> invalidated" as a possible response to EXECUTE/Bind, or will the backend
>> keep the query string / parse tree around and replan on next execution?

> The latter -- the client won't be aware that replanning took place.

It seems possible that replanning would fail for some reason, in which
case the EXECUTE would get an error of a kind you maybe weren't
expecting during EXECUTE. Other than that it seems it should be
transparent.

regards, tom lane

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