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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Uninstall script errors
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Msg-id 22053.1141278725@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Uninstall script errors  (Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>)
Responses Re: Uninstall script errors  (Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>)
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Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> writes:
> ...  I started to work on a patch but I wasn't sure how
> to handle the chicken-and-egg situation of dropping a type and its
> I/O functions.  Is there any way to do that other than DROP TYPE
> CASCADE?  Should the uninstall scripts be doing that?

DROP TYPE CASCADE is probably reasonable; that's the way pg_dump
handles the problem, anyway.
        regards, tom lane

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