Tom Lane wrote: > Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 6:16 PM, Andreas Karlsson <andr...@proxel.se> wrote: > >> My immediate thought is first doing an UPDATE of pg_proc and then updating > >> the catcache with CREATE OR REPLACE with the new arguments. Does that work? > >> Is there a less ugly way to accomplish this? > > > Isn't it better to just drop and recreate the function? pageinspect > > did so for example for heap_page_items in 1.4 to update its OUT > > arguments. > > You'd have to alter the index opfamily to disconnect the function from it, > drop/recreate the function, then re-add it to the opfamily. Kind of icky, > but probably better than the alternatives.
What happens if the upgraded database contains indexes using those opfamilies? I suppose getting such indexes dropped because of ALTER EXTENSION UPDATE is not very nice. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
