Re: Dependency tree to tie type/function deps to a table - Mailing list pgsql-general

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