Re: pg_depend - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: pg_depend
Date
Msg-id 200107170157.f6H1vuZ21601@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: pg_depend  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-hackers
> Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue@tpf.co.jp> writes:
> > Is it really determined that *DROP OBJECT* drops the objects
> > which are dependent on it ?
> 
> DROP object CASCADE should work that way, because that's what the spec
> says.
> 
> Whether the default DROP behavior should be CASCADE, RESTRICT, or the
> current laissez-faire behavior remains to be debated ;-).  The spec
> is no help since it has no default: DROP *requires* a CASCADE or
> RESTRICT option in SQL92.  But I doubt our users will let us get away
> with changing the syntax that way.  So, once we have the CASCADE and
> RESTRICT options implemented, we'll need to decide what an unadorned
> DROP should do.  Opinions anyone?

Don't forget RENAME.

And what do we do if two items depend on the same object.


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