When you go thru regular database maintenance you might need to drop some objects.
In some cases this objects have dependencies, this is the case of Sequences.
So this is the error you get when you try to drop a sequence and that sequences is used in some tables definition.
[Vertica][VJDBC](3128) ROLLBACK: DROP failed due to dependencies
[Vertica][VJDBC]Detail: Cannot drop Sequence my_Seq because other objects depend on it
select * from columns where column_default ilike '%nextval%<schema of the sequence%';