On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > > 1. Add the FK to the table BEFORE COPYing data
> > > 2. Use the old update blah set reltriggers = 0 trick
> > > 3. restore the data
> > > 4. Undo step 2
> >
> > The problem with that is that I think the reltriggers=0 trick only works
> > if you're superuser, I thought that's why the trigger disabling became
> > optional. A set that affected only atac would probably be reasonable in
> > the dump (and presumably easy to do). It'd also carry over to future
> > cases where we separate some check constraints (for examples ones
> > that refer directly or indirectly to the same table in a subselect).
>
> Well yes, this would be a super-user only ability. Are you worried about
> people restoring dumps as non-superuser?
Basically, yes (you might dump only some tables that you own for example).
I think that's why the data only dumps no longer do the reltriggers thing
by default and you need an option to get at it. We could make a similar
option for this case, but it'd only work when restored by a superuser.
