Re: Wrong order of tests in findDependentObjects() - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Wrong order of tests in findDependentObjects()
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Msg-id 5774.1480263301@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Wrong order of tests in findDependentObjects()  (Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com>)
Responses Re: Wrong order of tests in findDependentObjects()  (Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com>)
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Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com> writes:
> I suspect this is unrelated, but I've run into another oddity with 
> extension dependency: if an extension creates any temporary objects the 
> extension will install and function correctly... until the backend that 
> created the extension quits. This is VERY confusing if you've never come 
> across it before, because you'll do a bunch of work in a single script 
> but when you try to use the extension for real it will "randomly" just 
> vanish.

Yeah, I was wondering about that yesterday --- that comment mentions
the case of temporary objects, but it only fixes the problem while the
script runs.  Maybe there should be a separate test for "we're doing
temporary-object cleanup" that would similarly prevent recursion to
an extension?
        regards, tom lane



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