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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Dependency tree to tie type/function deps to a table
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Msg-id 29504.1513178431@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Dependency tree to tie type/function deps to a table  (Jeremy Finzel <finzelj@gmail.com>)
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Jeremy Finzel <finzelj@gmail.com> writes:
> It looks like the very useful dependency tree shown when using DROP CASCADE
> is written in C in dependency.c, but there is no way to leverage this
> within Postgres to actually query an object's dependencies.  Can we get
> this somehow as a Postgres client in SQL?

Seems like you could build a query for that easily enough using a
recursive union over pg_depend plus pg_describe_object() to produce
text descriptions of the entries.

            regards, tom lane

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