Re: [Patch] Data type cache to speed up query tool

Hi

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:12 AM, aiht <aihtdikh(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>>> * When a pgConn is Duplicate()d, its cache is copied for the new
>>> connection
>>> to use, but as far as I can see this is only called when doing File->New
>>> Window in the query tool. If more pgConns are constructed by Duplicate()
>>> then caching may be more efficient.
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>> Not so sure about that, as mentioned above.
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> Yeah, now that I've looked closer it doesn't seem so easy to Duplicate()
> other connections. It seems safe in the query tool because the new window
> uses the same host/db/etc. But perhaps I am missing some points about e.g.
> schema search paths?

It should be safe - we're only duplicating the connection parameters
and then opening a new connection with them. We're not copying session
state or anything like that.

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