Joel Jacobson <j...@gluefinance.com> writes:
> 2011/1/2 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>
>> The thing you're missing is that implicit dependencies are really
>> bidirectional:

> So, basically it's not possible to define a recursive query only making use
> of pg_depend to build an entire dependency tree of all oids?
> It appears to me it's necessary to join the object type specific tables,
> such as pg_rewrite, to build a complete tree?

No, that's nonsense.  The information is in pg_depend; it's just not
expressed in a way that makes it easy to scan it in a single recursive
query.  If you could do something like

        select base-case
        union all
        select objid ... where refobjid matches
        union all
        select refobjid ... where objid matches and deptype = 'i'

then it'd be easy, but you only get one UNION ALL per recursive query.

                        regards, tom lane

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