Re: [HACKERS] DROP FUNCTION failure: cache lookup failed for relation X

2007-02-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
Added to TODO: * Increase locking when DROPing objects so dependent objects cannot get dropped while the DROP operation is happening http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-01/msg00937.php --- Tom Lane

Re: [HACKERS] DROP FUNCTION failure: cache lookup failed for relation X

2007-01-31 Thread Bruce Momjian
Uh, where are we on this? --- Tom Lane wrote: I wrote: Michael Fuhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've found a situation that causes DROP FUNCTION to fail (tested in 8.1.6, 8.2.1, and 8.3devel):

Re: [HACKERS] DROP FUNCTION failure: cache lookup failed for relation X

2007-01-31 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Uh, where are we on this? Still in the think-about-it mode, personally ... my proposed fix is certainly much too invasive to consider back-patching, so unless someone comes up with a way-simpler idea, it's 8.3 material at best ...

Re: [HACKERS] DROP FUNCTION failure: cache lookup failed for relation

2007-01-28 Thread Richard Troy
It seems a general solution would involve having dependency.c take exclusive locks on all types of objects (not only tables) as it scans them and decides they need to be deleted later. And when adding a pg_depend entry, we'd need to take a shared lock and then recheck to make sure the

Re: [HACKERS] DROP FUNCTION failure: cache lookup failed for relation X

2007-01-27 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: Michael Fuhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've found a situation that causes DROP FUNCTION to fail (tested in 8.1.6, 8.2.1, and 8.3devel): http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-01/msg00937.php Ugh ... I haven't traced this through in detail, but I'm pretty sure the problem

[HACKERS] DROP FUNCTION failure: cache lookup failed for relation X

2007-01-21 Thread Michael Fuhr
I've found a situation that causes DROP FUNCTION to fail (tested in 8.1.6, 8.2.1, and 8.3devel): CREATE TABLE foo (id integer); CREATE FUNCTION foofunc() RETURNS trigger AS $$ BEGIN RETURN NEW; END; $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql; Then in concurrent sessions: A: BEGIN; A: CREATE TRIGGER footrig

Re: [HACKERS] DROP FUNCTION failure: cache lookup failed for relation X

2007-01-21 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Fuhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've found a situation that causes DROP FUNCTION to fail (tested in 8.1.6, 8.2.1, and 8.3devel): Ugh ... I haven't traced this through in detail, but I'm pretty sure the problem arises from the fact that dependency.c traces through auto/internal