Re: pg_depend

> Tom Lane writes:
>
> > The alternative to pg_depend is to do a brute force scan of all the
> > system catalogs looking for dependent objects. In that case, you'd
> > know what you are looking at, but if we extract the dependencies as
> > a separate table, I don't see how you'd know without being told.
>
> The former is what I'm advocating.

So you are basically saying you don't like pg_depend. Would you prefer
to use it only in cases we can't encode the dependencies easily in the
system catalogs, like functions that require certain relations?

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