Re: Create syscaches for pg_extension

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Create syscaches for pg_extension
Date: 2024-08-13 14:22:20
Message-ID: CAFj8pRB6UES3yPH8mfvPnt=uknNcR9JdnLXcu2QW4C3bTezgDg@mail.gmail.com
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út 13. 8. 2024 v 16:13 odesílatel Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>
napsal:

> Shared libraries of extensions might want to invalidate or update their
> own caches whenever a CREATE/ALTER/DROP EXTENSION command is run for
> their extension (in any backend). Right now this is non-trivial to do
> correctly and efficiently. But if the extension catalog was part of a
> syscache this could simply be done by registering an callback using
> CacheRegisterSyscacheCallback for the relevant syscache.
>
> This change is only made to make the lives of extension authors easier.
> The performance impact of this change should be negligible, since
> updates to pg_extension are very rare.
>

+1

Pavel

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