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

From: Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(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 17:51:38
Message-ID: CA+HiwqHdMpgfER9omKePCFKXeEWTZ=wsHXzyTiMRuYFrTbSgPw@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 2:13 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Reading Tom's reply to my email, I wondered if performDeletion won't
> > do more than what the code is already doing (except calling the right
> > trigger deletion function which the current code doesn't), because the
> > trigger in question is an internal trigger without any dependencies
> > (the function it invokes are pinned by the system)?
>
> A big part of the point here is to not have to have such assumptions
> wired into the fk-cloning code. But even if that internal dependency is
> the only one the trigger is involved in, there are other steps in
> deleteOneObject that shouldn't be ignored. For example, somebody
> could've attached a comment to it.

Okay, I hadn't considered that far. Thanks for explaining.

Regards,
Amit

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