[HACKERS] Re: Recursive use of syscaches (was: relation ### modified while in use)

[Tom Lane]

Hiroshi Inoue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My concern is the robustness of rel cache.
> It seems pretty dangerous to discard system relation
> descriptors used for cache mechanism especially in
> case of error recovery.
> It also seems pretty dangerous to recontruct relation
> descriptors especially in case of error recovery.

Why?  We are able to construct all the non-nailed relcache entries
from scratch during backend startup.  That seems a sufficient
proof that we can reconstruct any or all of them on demand.

Until the changes I made today, there was a flaw in that logic,
namely that the specific order that relcache entries are built in
during startup might be somehow magic, ie, building them in another
order might cause a recursive syscache call.  But now, that doesn't
matter.

                        regards, tom lane