Hello,

I have written this function which is simply returns the entities which depends 
on a certain entity. It works fine if the dependency tree is not long. However, 
If I have an entity which are linked to many other entities I get 


stack depth limit exceeded
HINT:  Increase the configuration parameter "max_stack_depth", after ensuring 
the platform's stack depth limit is adequate.

I wrote this function to know exactly what are the tables, views that will be 
doped if I use cascade option.  I want to get around this issue without 
changing 
the server configuration


CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION dependon(var text)
  RETURNS SETOF text AS
$BODY$
    DECLARE 
        node record;
        child_node record;
    BEGIN
    
        FOR node IN -- For inheritance
        SELECT objid::regclass::text as relname    
        FROM pg_catalog.pg_depend 
        WHERE refobjid = $1::regclass::oid AND deptype ='n' AND classid 
='pg_class'::regclass
        UNION 
        -- For rewrite rules 
        SELECT ev_class::regclass::text as relname 
        FROM pg_rewrite WHERE oid IN ( SELECT objid FROM pg_catalog.pg_depend 
        WHERE refobjid = $1::regclass::oid AND deptype ='n')
        UNION 
        -- For constraints (Forign keys)
        SELECT conrelid::regclass::text as relname
        FROM pg_constraint WHERE oid in (SELECT objid FROM pg_catalog.pg_depend 
        WHERE refobjid = $1::regclass::oid AND deptype ='n')

        LOOP     

            RETURN NEXT node.relname;
            FOR child_node IN SELECT * FROM dependon(node.relname)
                LOOP
            RETURN NEXT child_node.dependon;
                END LOOP;
             
        END LOOP;
    END
    $BODY$
  LANGUAGE 'plpgsql'

Regards

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