Re: LIST OWNED BY...

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 01:27:43PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> wrote:
> > On 29 February 2012 17:16, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >> Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> writes:
> >>> So could we introduce either a command to show which objects are owned
> >>> by a particular role, or allow a dry-run of DROP OWNED BY?
> >>
> >> It's always been possible to do that:
> >>
> >>        begin;
> >>        drop owned by joe;
> >>        rollback;
> >>
> >> I believe this is already the recommended approach if you're concerned
> >> about what DROP CASCADE will do.
> >
> > No, the cascade part is fine.  It's the objects which won't cause a
> > cascade that are an issue.  Putting it in a transaction for rolling
> > back doesn't help find out what it intends to drop.
> >
> > How can the user tell what the statement would drop (ignoring cascades)?
>
> It's certainly possible to write a query for this, but I think this
> gets back to the old argument about whether every client (and every
> end-user) should be required to reimplement this, or whether maybe we
> ought to provide some server functionality around it.

Is this a TODO?

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