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* 'CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION' behavior whenever a transaction is running
@ 2022-04-20 18:02 PG Doc comments form <[email protected]>
2022-04-20 20:52 ` Re: 'CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION' behavior whenever a transaction is running David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
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From: PG Doc comments form @ 2022-04-20 18:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
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The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/sql-createfunction.html
Description:
The page does not mention what is the default behavior whenever a function
is replaced while the same function is being used in another
query/transaction.
Does the query fail? Does the 'CREATE OR REPLACE' operation fail? Does the
query finish before the function is replaced?
As a side note, my interest in this came from our need to use 'C-Language
Functions', aka binary functions, so it would be neat to also add what is
the behavior on those as well, if there's any difference.
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* Re: 'CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION' behavior whenever a transaction is running
2022-04-20 18:02 'CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION' behavior whenever a transaction is running PG Doc comments form <[email protected]>
@ 2022-04-20 20:52 ` David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
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From: David G. Johnston @ 2022-04-20 20:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: [email protected]; Pg Docs <[email protected]>
On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 12:50 PM PG Doc comments form <
[email protected]> wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/sql-createfunction.html
> Description:
>
> The page does not mention what is the default behavior whenever a function
> is replaced while the same function is being used in another
> query/transaction.
>
> Does the query fail? Does the 'CREATE OR REPLACE' operation fail? Does the
> query finish before the function is replaced?
>
> As a side note, my interest in this came from our need to use 'C-Language
> Functions', aka binary functions, so it would be neat to also add what is
> the behavior on those as well, if there's any difference.
>
IIUC pg_proc is administered using MVCC behavior just like any other
table. What you experience will be subject to your isolation mode but in
no case will a single command's execution see different versions nor will
such execution prevent the "replace"ment of the function with a newer
version.
Absent guidance to the contrary I wouldn't expect C language functions to
behave any differently than any others. But that just pertains to the
"REPLACE" aspect. You need to read the notes about C language functions to
get the rest of the story (and you likely wouldn't need to "replace" a
C-langauge function entry because of this different loading/compiling
mechanism). Namely:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/xfunc-c.html#XFUNC-C-DYNLOAD
In short, C-language functions, referenced simply by name and module, and
pre-compiled, do not have a mechanism to invalidate the cache like pl/pgsql
functions do. Other languages may involve yet other dynamics.
David J.
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