Re: Reference integrity question - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: Reference integrity question
Date
Msg-id 20030102013805.A87429-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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In response to Reference integrity question  (Evgen Potemkin <evgent@ns.terminal.ru>)
List pgsql-sql
On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Evgen Potemkin wrote:

> Good time of day!
>
> I have two tables
>   news(newsid int4, newscltid int4 references clt(cltid) match full,newstext text)
> and
>   clt(cltid int4, somedata text).
> after clt is renamed , for ex. to clt_old, newscltid start to reference to clt_old.cltid.
>   i'm create new table clt(cltid int4, anotherdata text);
>
> is there any way to make newscltid reference to newly created clt, beside
> recreation of news ?

If you mean that all newscltids should reference the new table (presumably
already loaded)...

Since you haven't given a version, let's guess 7.3, in which case the
constraint should probably be named "$1" and you can do an
ALTER TABLE news drop constraint "$1";
ALTER TABLE news add foreign key (newscltid) references clt(cltid) match
full;

but it's tougher in older versions.



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