On 12 March 2012 16:16, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:52 AM, <rene.vanpaas...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I found some unexpected behaviour when changing the schema search path > in > >> combination with plpgsql functions (may be true for other function types > >> too, did not check). This occurs both in 9.1.2 (on Fedora, 64 bit) and > 8.4.9 > >> (Centos 6, 32 bit). I created a small example run with psql, to > demonstrate > >> this. > > > I have a vague feeling this is a known issue. It sure seems like we > > should handle it better, but I'm not sure how hard that would be to > > implement. > > plpgsql intentionally caches the plan for the query as it was built with > the original search_path. There's been talk of adjusting that behavior > but I'm worried that we might break as many cases as we fix ... >
But since I can work around the problem by closing and opening the database connection, the "original search_path" is thus the search path that the function happened to run in for the first time with the current database connection. -- René van Paassen | ______o____/_| rene.vanpaas...@gmail.com <[___\_\_-----< t: +31 15 2628685 | o' mobile: +31 6 39846891