Re: pg_depend

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alex Pilosov <alex(at)pilosoft(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_depend
Date: 2001-07-17 15:30:03
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0107171729220.678-100000@peter.localdomain
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Bruce Momjian writes:

> > I'm not seeing the point. You're essentially duplicating the information
> > that's already available in the system catalogs. This is bound to become
> > a catastrophe the minute a user steps in and does manual surgery on some
> > catalog. (And yes, manual surgery should still be possible.)
>
> But how then do you find the system table that uses the given oid?

It's implied by the column you're looking at.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

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