Re: operator dependency of commutator and negator - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: operator dependency of commutator and negator
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Msg-id 1285769761-sup-8397@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to operator dependency of commutator and negator  (Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: operator dependency of commutator and negator
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Excerpts from Itagaki Takahiro's message of mié sep 29 03:56:33 -0400 2010:
> When we drop an operator used by other operators as COMMUTATOR or NEGATOR,
> pg_dump generates an invalid SQL command for the operators depending on
> the dropped one. Is it an unavoidable restriction?

Maybe we need a pg_depend entry from each pg_operator entry to the other
one.  The problem is that this creates a cycle in the depends graph; not
sure how well these are handled in the code, if at all.

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