How determine a Views dependents
Fellow Postgressors,
I took over an existing PG 8.0 database running on Windows XP. I need to
update a view so I know I need to drop the existing view and all the objects
that depend on it.
The DB is large enough that I can't just look through it with PGAdmin. In
an organized way, how can I find out what those dependents are?
If I need to use pg_depend, I could use some help in how to do that.
Thanks!
Charles Mortell
Advanced Planning Technologies, Inc.
On the Mississippi River at La Crosse, WI
cmortell at apt-cafm dot com
On Jun 22, 2007, at 10:50 AM, Charles Mortell wrote:
Fellow Postgressors,
I took over an existing PG 8.0 database running on Windows XP. I
need to
update a view so I know I need to drop the existing view and all
the objects
that depend on it.
The DB is large enough that I can't just look through it with
PGAdmin. In
an organized way, how can I find out what those dependents are?
If I need to use pg_depend, I could use some help in how to do that.
Thanks!
Have you looked at the output of \d <view name> in psql?
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"Charles Mortell" <cmortell@apt-cafm.com> writes:
I took over an existing PG 8.0 database running on Windows XP. I need to
update a view so I know I need to drop the existing view and all the objects
that depend on it.
The DB is large enough that I can't just look through it with PGAdmin. In
an organized way, how can I find out what those dependents are?
The traditional way is
drop view victim restrict;
... read the error message ...
regards, tom lane