Re: pg_depend

> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > > I'm not seeing the point. You're essentially duplicating the information
> > > that's already available in the system catalogs. This is bound to become
> > > a catastrophe the minute a user steps in and does manual surgery on some
> > > catalog. (And yes, manual surgery should still be possible.)
> >
> > But how then do you find the system table that uses the given oid?
>
> It's implied by the column you're looking at.

Is it? Are we going to record dependency both ways, e.g primary table
-> foreign table and foreign table -> primary table, or just one of
them. And when we see we depend on something, do we know always what it
could be. If I drop a table and I depend on oid XXX, do I know if that
is a type, function, or serial sequence?

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