Re: Parallel safety tagging of extension functions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Parallel safety tagging of extension functions
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Msg-id 30592.1464020552@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Parallel safety tagging of extension functions  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Parallel safety tagging of extension functions  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 6:16 PM, Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se> wrote:
>> My immediate thought is first doing an UPDATE of pg_proc and then updating
>> the catcache with CREATE OR REPLACE with the new arguments. Does that work?
>> Is there a less ugly way to accomplish this?

> Isn't it better to just drop and recreate the function? pageinspect
> did so for example for heap_page_items in 1.4 to update its OUT
> arguments.

You'd have to alter the index opfamily to disconnect the function from it,
drop/recreate the function, then re-add it to the opfamily.  Kind of icky,
but probably better than the alternatives.
        regards, tom lane



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