Re: how to check objects dependency??

Doesn't ownership also apply to views and stored procs...

On 11/1/07, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On 10/31/07, Jessica Richard <rjessil(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
> > I am trying to drop a user but it complained with the following message:
> >
> > ERROR: role "joe" cannot be dropped because some objects depend on it
> > DETAIL: 1 objects in database Jan_test
> > 1 objects in database Jan
> >
> > this user does not own any tables in those two databases. Is there any
> > command I can use to check all the dependencies on this user?
>
> What version of pgsql are you running? In 8.2 I get a more useful
> error message for a table that is owned by a user, i.e.:
>
> ERROR: role ... cannot be dropped ...
> DETAIL: owner of table <tablename>
>
> Have you looked in the logs to see if something like that shows up in
> them?
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