Re: Finding all References to a Primary Key - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Erik Jones
Subject Re: Finding all References to a Primary Key
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Msg-id 00F59014-2C8B-49D6-8ED8-57C34AC7ADF7@myemma.com
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In response to Finding all References to a Primary Key  ("Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net>)
List pgsql-sql
On Mar 26, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> I'm sorry if this is has been discussed, but I tried to find the
> answer in the archives and failed, so...
>
> How do I find all the rows in other tables that reference a specific
> row in another table?  I'm only trying to find rows that are in
> tables where there is a Foreign Key referencing the primary key of
> the table in question.
>
> Example:
> Table People has a primary key of people_id
> There are say 20 tables that have foreign keys referencing
> people.people_id
> How do I find all the rows in all of those 20 tables that reference
> a particular person in the people table?

pg_catalog.pg_constraint has that info.

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