Re: invalidating cached plans
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Qingqing Zhou" <zhouqq@cs.toronto.edu>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-04-02T16:44:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
"Qingqing Zhou" <zhouqq@cs.toronto.edu> writes: > "Neil Conway" <neilc@samurai.com> writes >> PostgreSQL should invalidate a cached query plan when one of the objects >> the plan depends upon is modified. > It just comes into my mind that current cache invalidation implementation > may need to consider the future query result cache. There isn't likely ever to be a query result cache. The idea has been proposed before and rejected before: too much complexity and overhead for too little prospective gain. If you need such a thing it makes more sense to do it on the application side and save a network round trip. regards, tom lane