Hello Andreas, Thanks for the reply, The example I have posted is very simple and you are right it is very similar to select max (id) from table_that_does_not_exist; But there are more here, for example imagine I have something like
CREATE VIEW a4 as select .... from a3(), .... ; In my opinion, this might leads to many problems such as 1. A lot of garbage in the database including functions refers to non existing objects and views defined over these functions. 2. This might also lead to some logical errors; especially, if you have a view defined over such functions and used in external applications. 3. You will get also a broken dependency graph, in the above example it is obvious that a4 depends on a3 which depends on a2. Regards ________________________________ From: Andreas Kretschmer <akretsch...@spamfence.net> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 2:47 PM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] function depend on view salah jubeh <s_ju...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello Guys, > > I am having a scenario close to the one below, I have defined a function which > depends on a view. I am able to drop the view, but my server did not complain > about the dependency. > > In the scenario below, one can drop the views a2 and a1 respectively, and > when > executing a3(), certainly an exception will be raised. I think there should be > an entry for this dependency in the pg_depend table with dependency type > normal I think, there is no real problem, it's (for me) the same as: test=# select max(id) from table_that_does_not_exist; ERROR: relation "table_that_does_not_exist" does not exist LINE 1: select max(id) from table_that_does_not_exist; The database can't know and analyse the function-body. Andreas -- Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. (Linus Torvalds) "If I was god, I would recompile penguin with --enable-fly." (unknown) Kaufbach, Saxony, Germany, Europe. N 51.05082°, E 13.56889° -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
