Don't you think we try to be careful but still we manage to overlook several times in year something and cause some stupid downtime.
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com> wrote: > But the main problem is that if the DROP/CREATE happens, the failure > mode is very nasty - you get permanent error on existing backends. > (Main case I'm talking about is functions calling other functions.) > > Some sorta recovery mode would be nice to have, it does not even > need function perfectly. Giving error once and then recover would > be better than requiring manual action from admin.
sure -- this a known issue --, but the point is that there are not that many reasons why you have to drop/create a function if you are careful. hiding function prototypes is actually pretty powerful although you have to deal with creating the extra types.
