From: | Vik Fearing <vik(dot)fearing(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Benjie Gillam <benjie(at)jemjie(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Detecting functions installed by an extension |
Date: | 2018-06-17 08:26:23 |
Message-ID: | 352f05f3-6270-f160-3138-e66078d620e3@2ndquadrant.com |
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On 17/06/18 10:05, Benjie Gillam wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> How can I tell, using the system catalog or information schema, if a
> function/procedure was created by an extension as opposed to by the user
> (i.e. would be dropped if you performed "DROP EXTENSION")? So far I've
> looked at the `pg_extension` table, which lists the class IDs of
> configuration tables but doesn't mention procedures. I've looked at
> `pg_proc` but that doesn't seem to contain the information. I've also
> scanned over various other system catalogues but with no luck. Is this
> information available in one of the system catalogs? Does PostgreSQL
> itself track this information so that it can perform cleanup, or does it
> expect the extension to clean up after itself?
All dependencies are tracked in the system catalog pg_depend.
If you do \set ECHO_HIDDEN on in psql and then \dx+ an_extension you
can see what queries psql uses to get the information. That should put
you well on your way to doing what you want.
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