On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 10:19 PM Bryn Llewellyn <b...@yugabyte.com> wrote:

> Why not err on the side of caution and (I trust) guaranteed currency of
> each session's in-memory representation of a PL/pgSQL program with the
> environment in which it executes?
>
> After all, you add a column in order to use it. And this means that at the
> very least client-side code must be changed to do this. And this means
> quiescing use of the application and then re-starting it with new behavior.
> Is re-starting the connection pool before opening up the new app for use so
> expensive that it's worth trying to reason when it might be safe to avoid
> this re-start?
>

True.  I was a bit hasty in forming an opinion on an operational aspect
like that.  That just isn't something I typically think about.

David J.

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