Re: Prepared statement invalidation

Is there a transaction isolation mode that would help with the specific case of adding a column to a table? EG to prevent a prepared statement from seeing the new schema?

Thanks,
Daniel Heath

On Fri, Apr 16, 2021, at 10:17 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Daniel Heath" <daniel(at)heath(dot)cc> writes:
> > I've found that when I add a new column, I sometimes get a spike of errors on the application side due to prepared statement query plans getting invalidated, causing transactions to rollback.
> > The error is:
> > ERROR: cached plan must not change result type
> > Is there a way to make postgres recalculate the query plan instead of failing the transaction when a new column is added?
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> No. It'd be easy enough to remove that restriction on the server side,
> but we're afraid that it would break applications, which probably aren't
> expecting the result rowtype of a prepared query to be different from what
> they were told (perhaps only milliseconds earlier).
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> I'd say the short answer is "don't use prepared queries, or if you do,
> spell out the columns you want instead of saying SELECT *".
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> regards, tom lane
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> > Thanks,
> > Daniel Heath
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