DROP TABLE, and children?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)protecne(dot)cl>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: DROP TABLE, and children?
Date: 2000-11-21 20:26:54
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.21.0011211717570.2053-100000@aguila.protecne.cl
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Hi:

If I'm creating some inherited tables from a parent,

rwtest=> CREATE TABLE test (col1 INTEGER);
CREATE
rwtest=> CREATE TABLE testchld () INHERITS (test);
CREATE

and then try to drop the parent, it says

rwtest=> DROP TABLE test;
ERROR: Relation '22057' inherits 'test'

Is there some easy way to DROP all children tables? I was looking
through some old archives, I found that neither UPDATE nor DELETE dealt
with inheritance (some grammar that had to do with relation_name rather
than relation_expr), but couldn't find anything about DROP.

Maybe some query to get all relations that inherit from the one I'm
trying to drop?

TIA.

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[(at)]protecne(dot)cl>)

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