Re: Fixing findDependentObjects()'s dependency on scan order (regressions in DROP diagnostic messages)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fixing findDependentObjects()'s dependency on scan order (regressions in DROP diagnostic messages)
Date: 2019-02-09 07:26:00
Message-ID: 16446.1549697160@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 9:41 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> +1. The best solution would presumably be to go through the normal
>> object deletion mechanism; though possibly there's a reason that
>> won't work given you're already inside some other DDL.

> Maybe:
> - CatalogTupleDelete(trigrel, &trigtup->t_self);
> + RemoveTriggerById(trgform->oid)?

No, that's still the back end of the deletion machinery, and in particular
it would fail to clean pg_depend entries for the trigger. Going in by the
front door would use performDeletion(). (See deleteOneObject() to get
an idea of what's being possibly missed out here.)

regards, tom lane

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