Re: pg_depend

> Alex Pilosov writes:
> 
> > > I'm not so convinced on that idea.  Assume you're dropping object foo.
> > > You look at pg_depend and see that objects 145928, 264792, and 1893723
> > > depend on it.  Great, what do you do now?
> > I believe someone else previously suggested this:
> >
> > drop <type> object [RESTRICT | CASCADE]
> >
> > to make use of dependency info.
> 
> That was me.  The point, however, was, given object id 145928, how the
> heck to you know what table this comes from?

I think we will need the relid of the system table.  I imagine four
columns:
object relidobject oidreference relidreferences oid

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