Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
If there's a risk that multiple clients will try to execute a 'create or replace
function' simultaneously, what's the recommended practice for putting it in a
transaction and/or locking it? If a lock's incolved what should this be applied
to- the table that the function is most likely to be involved with, an arbitrary
table, or a dummy table specifically reserved for this purpose?

What problem are you trying to prevent here? Do you want a particular version of the function to be available for a certain amount of time?

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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd

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