Re: Can I assume relation would not be invalid during from ExecutorRun to ExecutorEnd

On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 2:10 AM Andy Fan <zhihui(dot)fan1213(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> 1. During the ExecutorRun & ExecutorEnd, the relcache will never by invalidated, if not
> the old relation->balabala will be lost. I assume this is correct since I didn't see any places
> where we handle such changes in Executor code.

It's not correct. We accept invalidation messages in a number of
different code paths, including whenever we acquire a lock on a
relation. That doesn't typically happen in the middle of a query, but
that's just because most queries don't happen to do anything that
would make it happen. They can, though. For example, the query can
call a user-defined function that accesses a table not previously
touched by the transaction. Or a built-in function that does the same
thing, like table_to_xml().

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