question about fixes in v7.4...

On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 11:17, Don Sceifers wrote:

My company is fairly new at Postgresql, but we have hit a problem, where
we modify a table using ALTER, and our stored procedures stop working. We
have a grasp as to why this happens, but I was wondering if this v7.4
upgrade fixes this issue?

At this time function bodies do not have the dependency tracking
capabilities that a majority of the system has, so it is unable to
complain when you remove or alter an object it depends on.

With SQL functions it should be feasible. For functions that build
queries on the fly this will be virtually impossible.

Don Sceifers wrote:

My company is fairly new at Postgresql, but we have hit a problem, where
we modify a table using ALTER, and our stored procedures stop working. We
have a grasp as to why this happens, but I was wondering if this v7.4
upgrade fixes this issue?

This is a known issue. There is no way for us to know what stored
tables/columns you are using in your function. You might find that
reconnecting to the database after the ALTER will fix the problem. We
do cache function code, so reconnecting will erase that cache.

If still have problems, please report the ALTER command and function
that is causing the problem.

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On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 22:50, Bruce Momjian wrote:

Don Sceifers wrote:

My company is fairly new at Postgresql, but we have hit a problem, where
we modify a table using ALTER, and our stored procedures stop working. We
have a grasp as to why this happens, but I was wondering if this v7.4
upgrade fixes this issue?

This is a known issue. There is no way for us to know what stored
tables/columns you are using in your function. You might find that
reconnecting to the database after the ALTER will fix the problem. We
do cache function code, so reconnecting will erase that cache.

Would it be worth putting in a partial implementation? I'm thinking
specifically about functions that return table types. Could they be
hooked up with dependency information and made to complain?

Robert Treat
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Don Sceifers wrote:

My company is fairly new at Postgresql, but we have hit a problem,

where

we modify a table using ALTER, and our stored procedures stop working.

We

have a grasp as to why this happens, but I was wondering if this v7.4
upgrade fixes this issue?

Not sure if this applies with Postgres but did you also recompile the stored
procedures? If I remember correctly Sybase and Informix (?) required store
procedured to be recompiled after DDL to tables they used, and Oracle often
invalidates any functions, views, packages and procedures if they have any
relation to the modified table.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Treat" <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
To: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] question about fixes in v7.4...

On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 22:50, Bruce Momjian wrote:

Don Sceifers wrote:

My company is fairly new at Postgresql, but we have hit a problem,

where

we modify a table using ALTER, and our stored procedures stop working.

We