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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: denisa.cirstescu@asentinel.com
To: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Undocumented behavior od DROP SCHEMA ... CASCADE
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 08:47:55 -0400
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On 8/5/16 6:48 AM, denisa.cirstescu@asentinel.com wrote:
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/sql-dropschema.html
> Description:
> 
> DROP SCHEMA ... CASCADE has a behavior that has not been documented.
> According to the documentation: &quot;CASCADE - Automatically drop objects
> (tables, functions, etc.) that are contained in the schema.&quot;.
> Well, besides this, DROP SCHEMA ... CASCADE also drops all the views which
> depends on the schema that is being dropped. It does not matter if the views
> are in the public schema or another schema than the one being dropped, they
> are deleted.

Can you give an example?

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Peter Eisentraut              http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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