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42.29. pg_shdepend

The catalog pg_shdepend records the dependency relationships between database objects and shared objects, such as roles. This information allows PostgreSQL to ensure that those objects are unreferenced before attempting to delete them.

See also pg_depend , which performs a similar function for dependencies involving objects within a single database.

Unlike most system catalogs, pg_shdepend is shared across all databases of a cluster: there is only one copy of pg_shdepend per cluster, not one per database.

Table 42-29. pg_shdepend Columns

Name Type References Description
dbid oid pg_database .oid The OID of the database the dependent object is in, or zero for a shared object
classid oid pg_class .oid The OID of the system catalog the dependent object is in
objid oid any OID column The OID of the specific dependent object
refclassid oid pg_class .oid The OID of the system catalog the referenced object is in (must be a shared catalog)
refobjid oid any OID column The OID of the specific referenced object
deptype char   A code defining the specific semantics of this dependency relationship; see text.

In all cases, a pg_shdepend entry indicates that the referenced object may not be dropped without also dropping the dependent object. However, there are several subflavors identified by deptype:

SHARED_DEPENDENCY_OWNER (o)

The referenced object (which must be a role) is the owner of the dependent object.

SHARED_DEPENDENCY_ACL (a)

The referenced object (which must be a role) is mentioned in the ACL (access control list, i.e., privileges list) of the dependent object. (A SHARED_DEPENDENCY_ACL entry is not made for the owner of the object, since the owner will have a SHARED_DEPENDENCY_OWNER entry anyway.)

SHARED_DEPENDENCY_PIN (p)

There is no dependent object; this type of entry is a signal that the system itself depends on the referenced object, and so that object must never be deleted. Entries of this type are created only by initdb. The columns for the dependent object contain zeroes.

Other dependency flavors may be needed in future. Note in particular that the current definition only supports roles as referenced objects.


 
 
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