Re: DROP EXTENSION

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, mschwan(at)opentext(dot)com, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: DROP EXTENSION
Date: 2016-06-21 18:26:49
Message-ID: 12382.1466533609@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Right; mschwan wrote private email to indicate that the function in
> question is:

> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.f_unaccent(text)
> RETURNS text AS
> $$
> select public.unaccent('public.unaccent', $1)
> $$
> LANGUAGE sql IMMUTABLE;

> so when the unaccent extension is dropped, this function remains (of
> course) but it stops working.

Ah, I kind of suspected that: the issue is that we don't analyze function
bodies to detect dependencies therein. In a perfect world we would, but
there are daunting obstacles in the way.

regards, tom lane

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