Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 at 21:54, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> The larger issue that this touches on is that we don't prevent you from
>> dropping the composite type's column even when the query using the
>> dependent function has hard references to that column (e.g, it's actually
>> output by the view). Maybe sometime somebody ought to work on tightening
>> that up. In the meantime though, it's bad for EXPLAIN or pg_dump to fail
>> altogether on such cases, so I propose the behavior shown in the attached
>> patch.
> +1. LGTM.
Pushed, thanks for reviewing!
I think I'll go take a look at the missing-dependency aspect now.
I realized from checking the commit log that we've been putting
off doing that since 2014, if not before. Really should fix it.
regards, tom lane