Re: DROP CASCADE transitive dependencies

C GG <cgg0007(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> ...PostgreSQL 9.5...
> `DROP SCHEMA blah;` reports all the dependent objects and advises to `DROP
> SCHEMA blah CASCADE;` ...

> Will DROP ... CASCADE traverse the entire dependency tree for each of the
> dependent objects (potentially dropping something unintended), or will it
> stop at the first level and balk at any new transitive dependencies?

The former. However, the list of dependencies it's showing you as
potentially dropped already includes transitive dependencies; there
aren't going to be "new" ones unless somebody is adding things
concurrently.

If you're feeling paranoid, you could always do

begin;
drop ... cascade;

and then look at the reported list of objects before deciding whether
to commit or roll back.

regards, tom lane