[OT] Postgres Function Cache

Adam Witney awitney at sgul.ac.uk
Wed May 16 17:11:25 BST 2007


Hi,

Do you know what the server is trying to do when it throws up this error?

>From this post

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-03/msg00373.php

It may be that the application has dropped the function somewhere while it
is in use?



On 16/5/07 13:39, "Raf" <rafiq at dreamthought.com> wrote:

> On enlightened ones amoung you.
> 
> In the face of shabby google results, I hoped that someone hear might know
> something about the postgres function cache.  We have a server which
> reports an error of the form "cache lookup failed for function."  I'd like
> to ideally resolve this without a restart (which I would hope would fix
> this), and have been searching for some way to clear postgres' internal
> function cache - I think it stores plans/hints/compiled-version relating
> to stored proc's.
> 
> In any case, I can't seem to find any documentation which tells me how
> this can be cleared and hoped that someone might know of some means to
> achieve this.  Perhaps, I'm searching for the wrong term?
> 
> Any help would be of value?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Raf
> 
> 
> 




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