Re: Fixing findDependentObjects()'s dependency on scan order (regressions in DROP diagnostic messages)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fixing findDependentObjects()'s dependency on scan order (regressions in DROP diagnostic messages)
Date: 2019-02-09 16:10:38
Message-ID: 5943.1549728638@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 2019-Feb-09, Tom Lane wrote:
>> No, that's still the back end of the deletion machinery, and in particular
>> it would fail to clean pg_depend entries for the trigger. Going in by the
>> front door would use performDeletion(). (See deleteOneObject() to get
>> an idea of what's being possibly missed out here.)

> This patch I think does the right thing.

(squint ...) Don't much like the undocumented deleteDependencyRecordsFor
call; that looks like it's redundant with what deleteOneObject will do.
I think you're doing it to get rid of the INTERNAL dependency so that
deletion won't recurse across that, but why is that a good idea? Needs
a comment at least.

Also, I suspect you might need a second CCI after the performDeletion
call, in case the loop iterates?

regards, tom lane

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