Hi,

Le dim. 23 janv. 2022 à 22:34, Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com> a
écrit :

> I tested it now. a sinval message is waiting on the transaction end.  So
> when a variable is used, then it is working fine until the transaction ends.
> But when the session makes some DDL, then send sinval to self, and at this
> moment, the variable can be dropped before the transaction ends.
>

a backend can accept sinval in very common scenarios, like acquiring a
heavyweight lock. That includes accessing a relation thats not in the
catcache, so that's really critical to have a protection here.

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