From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Cc: Vik Fearing <vik@2ndquadrant.fr>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: denisa.cirstescu@asentinel.com, "pgsql-docs@postgresql.org" <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Undocumented behavior od DROP SCHEMA ... CASCADE
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 16:32:11 -0400
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I wrote:
> If we're going to add a warning about CASCADE being recursive, it would
> logically need to be added to every last DROP command that has a CASCADE
> option, which is most of them. I don't necessarily object to that, but
> we'd need a more boiler-plate, copy-and-pasteable phrasing.
> ...
> I'm inclined to suggest that maybe the generic phrasing could be
> "Automatically drop objects that depend on the <whatever> [(such as ...)],
> and in turn all objects that depend on those objects".
Not hearing any alternative suggestions, I'm going to go do something
like the above.
regards, tom lane
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