Re: Weeding out unused user created database objects, could I use pg_catalog?

From: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
To: Allan Kamau <kamauallan(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Postgres General Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Weeding out unused user created database objects, could I use pg_catalog?
Date: 2010-02-12 12:47:24
Message-ID: 4B754DDC.2060006@archonet.com
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On 12/02/10 12:32, Allan Kamau wrote:
> If I start with a clean deployment, is there a way I could perhaps
> query the table(s) in pg_catalog for example to find out the database
> objects (I have constructed) that have been invoked or used in some
> way during a complete run of my application. I had a quick look at the
> pg_catalog but was unable to determine the tables that may contain
> pieces of this information. If pg_catalog could provide me with this
> solution, what are the table(s) to query?

Quickest solution might be to use the --list option of pg_restore
(you'll need -Fc on pg_dump too). That will list everything in the
database dump and you can just compare the lists.

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

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