Re: Manual trigger removal [WAS] Flushing Postgres Function Cache - Mailing list pgsql-admin

Please read from bottom up.  I've proceeded further with this
investigation and have removed slony.  In spite of this the trigger in
pg_trigger and pg_dep remained.  I then removed both related records in
pg_depend and pg_trigger.

If I look in pg_class, it shows that there are 4 triggers on the table
which previously owened the trigger.  I no longer have any reference to
this oid in pg_depend or pg_trigger.

Yet, after restarting postgres and all client connections, I now get the
error:

ERROR: 1 trigger record(s) not found for relation
"<mytablename>"

As mentioned, I've checked the for relating oid's in pg_depend and
pg_trigger.  Nadda.

If anyone else has manually done something similar before, I would be
grateful for some guidence.

Many Thanks.

Raf




On Thu, 17 May 2007, Raf wrote:

> Update on the status of my findings relating to the bug below:
>
> I did:
>
> rafiq@rafiq ~/scratch/ $ echo "select tablename from pg_tables where
> tablename like 'pg_%'" | psql -U <user> <db> > pg_tables.txt
> rafiq@rafiq ~/scratch/ $ for i in `cat pg_tables.txt`; do echo "==$i=="; echo
> "select * from $i"| psql -U <user> <db> | grep 54881296; # the-oid;  done;
>
> And got:
>
> ...
> ==pg_trigger==
>   273090 | _ipt_replication_logtrigger_114 | 54881296 |     29 | t | f
> | |            0 | f            | f              |       3 |        |
> _ipt_replication\000114\000vvvvvvkkkkvvv\000
> ...
> ==pg_depend==
>   16412 | 54881725 |        0 |       1255 | 54881296 |           0 | n
> ...
>
>
> Which to me looks very slonny related.  It seems like the OID related to a
> slonny trigger.
>
> Has anyone seen this before, with regard to slonny?  I'm thinking of removing
> and readding slonny associations.  Is this best way forward?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Raf
>
>
> On Thu, 17 May 2007, Raf wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> In the face of shabby google results, I hoped that someone hear might know
>> something about the postgres function cache.  We have a server which
>> reports an error of the form "cache lookup failed for function <oid>."
>>
>> Initially, I'd hoped to resolve this without a restart (which didn't do the
>> trick either), and had been searching for some way to clear postgres'
>> internal function cache - I think it stores plans/hints/compiled-version
>> relating to stored proc's?
>>
>> I tried to select the reported oid out of pg_proc, which resulted in an
>> empty set.
>>
>> I then went on to explicitly drop the function and recreate it.  This was
>> interspersed with numerous postgres restarts and dropping of all client
>> connections.  In spite of this I still get the same error from our client
>> which still reports the same OID; which doesn't exist in pg_proc.
>>
>> In any case, I can't seem to find any documentation which tells me how to
>> clear this cache.
>>
>> Versions:
>>
>> pg: postgresql v 8.0.1-r4
>> os: Gentoo Linux/Kernel 2.6.12.5 #1
>>
>> Any help would be of value?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Raf
>>
>>
>>
>>
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