Re: how to check objects dependency??

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Jessica Richard <rjessil(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: how to check objects dependency??
Date: 2007-11-02 19:30:52
Message-ID: 20071102193052.GC2374@alvh.no-ip.org
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Jessica Richard wrote:
> Instead of using drop user username, I used drop user "username" with
> double quotes, then the error message told me more detail about a
> specific user defined function. Then I was able to drop that function,
> then drop this user.

FYI you can use the commands DROP OWNED and REASSIGN OWNED to drop the
objects by a given role, and respectively assign them to someone else.
(8.2 only).

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