Re: Undocumented behavior od DROP SCHEMA ... CASCADE - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Undocumented behavior od DROP SCHEMA ... CASCADE
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Msg-id 13204.1471033931@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Undocumented behavior od DROP SCHEMA ... CASCADE  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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I wrote:
> If we're going to add a warning about CASCADE being recursive, it would
> logically need to be added to every last DROP command that has a CASCADE
> option, which is most of them.  I don't necessarily object to that, but
> we'd need a more boiler-plate, copy-and-pasteable phrasing.
> ...
> I'm inclined to suggest that maybe the generic phrasing could be
> "Automatically drop objects that depend on the <whatever> [(such as ...)],
> and in turn all objects that depend on those objects".

Not hearing any alternative suggestions, I'm going to go do something
like the above.

            regards, tom lane


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