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From Christophe
Subject Re: indexes on functions and create or replace function
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In response to Re: indexes on functions and create or replace function  ("Matthew Dennis" <mdennis@merfer.net>)
Responses Re: indexes on functions and create or replace function  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Re: indexes on functions and create or replace function  ("Matthew Dennis" <mdennis@merfer.net>)
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On Aug 28, 2008, at 6:10 PM, Matthew Dennis wrote:
> I'm not sure I follow.  Couldn't you track which statements were
> prepared that called a function and either reprepare (just like
> reindex, recheck, etc) or in the case of dropping a function,
> refuse to drop it because something depends on it?

EXECUTE in PL/pgSQL accepts a string and executes it as a statement.
(That's different from the SQL-level EXECUTE.) I'm not sure how one
would track dependencies there.

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