Re: Elementary dependency look-up - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Elementary dependency look-up
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Msg-id 1252501502.15729.10.camel@fsopti579.F-Secure.com
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In response to Elementary dependency look-up  (Josh Williams <joshwilliams@ij.net>)
Responses Re: Elementary dependency look-up
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On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 20:45 -0400, Josh Williams wrote:
> The patch adds two new functions to the backend, pg_get_owner_object
> and
> pg_get_owner_column.  These look up the requested object in the
> pg_depend table, looking for an 'a' type dependency to another
> relation,
> and resolve either the relation or column names to text.

How is this better than just reading the information directly from
pg_depend?



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