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>44.32. <TT
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>pg_shdepend</TT
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>   The catalog <TT
CLASS="STRUCTNAME"
>pg_shdepend</TT
> records the
   dependency relationships between database objects and shared objects,
   such as roles.  This information allows
   <SPAN
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> to ensure that those objects are
   unreferenced before attempting to delete them.
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>   See also <A
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><TT
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>pg_depend</TT
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>,
   which performs a similar function for dependencies involving objects
   within a single database.
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>   Unlike most system catalogs, <TT
CLASS="STRUCTNAME"
>pg_shdepend</TT
>
   is shared across all databases of a cluster: there is only one
   copy of <TT
CLASS="STRUCTNAME"
>pg_shdepend</TT
> per cluster, not
   one per database.
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>Table 44-32. <TT
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>pg_shdepend</TT
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>dbid</TT
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>.oid</TT
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>The OID of the database the dependent object is in,
       or zero for a shared object</TD
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><TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
>classid</TT
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><TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>oid</TT
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>.oid</TT
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>The OID of the system catalog the dependent object is in</TD
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><TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
>objid</TT
></TD
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><TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>oid</TT
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>any OID column</TD
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>The OID of the specific dependent object</TD
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>       For a table column, this is the column number (the
       <TT
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       table itself).  For all other object types, this column is zero
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>.oid</TT
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>The OID of the system catalog the referenced object is in
       (must be a shared catalog)</TD
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><TT
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>refobjid</TT
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><TT
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>oid</TT
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>any OID column</TD
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>The OID of the specific referenced object</TD
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>deptype</TT
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>       A code defining the specific semantics of this dependency relationship; see text
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>   In all cases, a <TT
CLASS="STRUCTNAME"
>pg_shdepend</TT
> entry indicates that
   the referenced object cannot be dropped without also dropping the dependent
   object.  However, there are several subflavors identified by
   <TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
>deptype</TT
>:

   <P
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><TT
CLASS="SYMBOL"
>SHARED_DEPENDENCY_OWNER</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>o</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>       The referenced object (which must be a role) is the owner of the
       dependent object.
      </P
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><DT
><TT
CLASS="SYMBOL"
>SHARED_DEPENDENCY_ACL</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>a</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>       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 <TT
CLASS="SYMBOL"
>SHARED_DEPENDENCY_ACL</TT
> entry is
       not made for the owner of the object, since the owner will have
       a <TT
CLASS="SYMBOL"
>SHARED_DEPENDENCY_OWNER</TT
> entry anyway.)
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><DT
><TT
CLASS="SYMBOL"
>SHARED_DEPENDENCY_PIN</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>p</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><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 <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>initdb</TT
>.  The columns for the
       dependent object contain zeroes.
      </P
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   Other dependency flavors might be needed in future.  Note in particular
   that the current definition only supports roles as referenced objects.
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