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

[aperi2007]

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.

[strk]

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...

[aperi2007]

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.

[strk]

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