On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 12:43, Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Greg Stark wrote:
>
> >If I could disable and reenable the constraint the danger that I would get the
> >definition wrong would be eliminated. And if I had already done the work to
> >ensure there were no broken relationships I would optionally be able to skip
> >the redundant automatic check. I could even have done the verification myself
> >while the data wasn't live for example.
> >
> >
>
> Since FKs are implemented as trigger, you could disable all triggers on
> the table right now, no? Could be a bit more comfortable, I agree, and
> hope for an upcoming DISABLE TRIGGER command.
ISTM I've done this before... from a pg_dump -Fc backup first do a
pg_dump -s restore (schema only) and then a pg_dump -a
--disable-triggers to load the data without check foreign keys.
Theres certainly potential for trouble with this method I suppose but it
seems like it accomplish what the original poster requires...
Robert Treat
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