Hello, I'm doing some SELECTs from information_schema.views to find views with dependencies on other views, i.e. SELECT table_name FROM information_schema.views WHERE view_definition ILIKE '%myviewname%'; and each is taking about 1/2 a second, which is getting a bit slow for my use. There are 1213 views listed in information_schema.views Doing an explain analyze, it looks like the issue is likely to be the pg_get_viewdef function or one of the privilege check functions. I'm not worried about privilege checks and I don't need a nicely formatted definition. Is there a way of finding out how pg_get_viewdef works so I can perhaps do a lower level query? I've previously used pg_catalog.pg_views which performs similarly. Or is there a better way of finding view dependencies? I see there's a pg_catalog entry for tables that a view depends on but that's not what I'm after. Regards Oliver Kohll www.agilebase.co.uk -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general