Re: [GENERAL] Dependency tracking tool

2009-12-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On mån, 2009-12-14 at 16:58 +0100, Philippe Lang wrote: > My idea was to parse the functions definitions in order to build > dependencies between the functions. I'm not sure how difficult it is, > especially with overloaded functions, which require more than a simple > pattern search inside the fun

Re: [GENERAL] Dependency tracking tool

2009-12-14 Thread Philippe Lang
Tom wrote: >> In order to have a "global map" of the dependencies of the functions, >> views, tables in a PG database, I'd like to have some sort of >> "dependency tracking tool"... >> >> >> >> Is it correct to say that this "hierarchy" does not exist inside >> Postgresql, and that it is necessar

Re: [GENERAL] Dependency tracking tool

2009-12-14 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Philippe Lang wrote: > Hello, > > In order to have a "global map" of the dependencies of the functions, > views, tables in a PG database, I'd like to have some sort of > "dependency tracking tool", that would show for each object: > > - which other objects depend on this object > - on which other

Re: [GENERAL] Dependency tracking tool

2009-12-14 Thread Tom Lane
"Philippe Lang" writes: > In order to have a "global map" of the dependencies of the functions, > views, tables in a PG database, I'd like to have some sort of > "dependency tracking tool", that would show for each object: > - which other objects depend on this object > - on which other objects t

[GENERAL] Dependency tracking tool

2009-12-14 Thread Philippe Lang
Hello, In order to have a "global map" of the dependencies of the functions, views, tables in a PG database, I'd like to have some sort of "dependency tracking tool", that would show for each object: - which other objects depend on this object - on which other objects this object depends This wo