Opened 13 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#862 closed defect (wontfix)

Topology: the topology.DropTopology() drop any type of schemas

Reported by: aperi2007 Owned by: strk
Priority: medium Milestone: PostGIS 2.0.0
Component: topology Version: master
Keywords: Cc:

Description

I notice the topology.DropTopology() drop always a schema.

I guess it should drop only a true topology-schema. This mean drop only a schema listed in the in the 'topology' table.

Change History (4)

comment:1 by strk, 13 years ago

The idea behind dropping indiscriminately everything was based on the fact that you _might_ have messed up with topology.topology thus missing the "blessing" of a schema as a topology.

This is pretty much like DropGeometryTable, where the table is dropped even if it isn't advertised in geometry_columns, and even if it doesn't contain any geometric column…

comment:2 by aperi2007, 13 years ago

I understand your point of view.

This is pretty much like DropGeometryTable?, where the table is dropped even if it isn't advertised in geometry_columns, and even if it doesn't contain any geometric column…

You are right. let me see is they have the same paradigm: -) Have a GeometryColumn is a property of the table.

Is the same for Topology Schema ?

-) To be a topology schema is a property of a schema ?

I think you are right.

Another question is the drop rights.

leaving tha capability to drop always, perhaps (I don't know what security definer is used) but a user that cannot have the right to drop a schema using the postgres command could be drop a schema (public for example ? ) using the DropTopology only because it could have the right to execute DropTopology .

Another question is how to know if a standard schema is instead a topology-schema. Actually the only method is to do a select on others table in another schema again. Not very simple to know for a standard user.

There is a function to know if a table is a geometry table ? There is a function to know if a schema is a topology schema ?

Perhaps is the missing of these two function the problem.

comment:3 by strk, 13 years ago

There's structure AND metadata.

As for structure:

  • if a table has a field of type GEOMETRY then it is a "geometry" table.
  • if a schema has node/edge/face/relation tables with the well-known structure then is a "topology" schema (harder to tell)

As for metadata:

  • every GEOMETRY table has one or more records in geometry_columns
  • every topology schema has one record in topology.topology

comment:4 by strk, 12 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed
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