Joel Jacobson <j...@gluefinance.com> writes:
> 2011/1/12 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>> This isn't particularly *useful*, maybe, but it's hardly "impossible".
>> And if we analyzed function dependencies in any detail, circular
>> dependencies among functions would be possible (and useful).

> Thanks Tom for clarifying, this makes me even more motivated into
> implementing the "creation order"-algorithm using only sql/plpgsql and
> pg_depend.
> If you have any ideas on how to do this, in addition to reading the
> dependency.c and pg_dump_sort.c source code, they would be highly
> appreciated.

I've sometimes found it useful to think of internal dependencies as
acting like normal dependencies pointing in the other direction.
I'm not sure that would do much to solve your problem, but it might
be worth trying.

                        regards, tom lane

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