Don't you think we try to be careful but still we manage to overlook several
times in year something and cause some stupid downtime.

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Merlin Moncure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Marko Kreen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > But the main problem is that if the DROP/CREATE happens, the failure
> > mode is very nasty - you get permanent error on existing backends.
> > (Main case I'm talking about is functions calling other functions.)
> >
> > Some sorta recovery mode would be nice to have, it does not even
> > need function perfectly.  Giving error once and then recover would
> > be better than requiring manual action from admin.
>
> sure -- this a known issue --,  but the point is that there are not
> that many reasons why you have to drop/create a function if you are
> careful.  hiding function prototypes is actually pretty powerful
> although you have to deal with creating the extra types.
>
> merlin
>
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