Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > This highlights another problem with our plpgsql function caching.
> 
> It's a little disturbing to think that any change in SEARCH_PATH might
> force us to discard all cached plans.  That could be expensive; and
> consider a function that deliberately sets SEARCH_PATH to ensure that
> it gets the tables it wants.  You wouldn't want such a function to be
> unable to cache any plans across calls (not to mention blowing away
> every other function's plans, too).
> 
> We'd probably better record with each plan the SEARCH_PATH it was
> generated with.  Then, as long as that matches the current setting,
> we can re-use the plan.
> 
> Of course, none of this is going to happen until someone gets around to
> creating infrastructure for flushing cached plans at need.  Right at the
> moment the answer is going to have to be "don't do that".

Yep.  I was just surprised it highlighted another failure of cached
plans.

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