That's right, pg_constraint didn't exist before 7.3. In the contrib
directory there is a script called adddepend which attempts to create the
missing records for you.
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:20:54PM +0000, Jeff Boes wrote:
> Almost all of my foreign key definitions are NOT present in
> pg_constraint. However, they do exist as triggers. It appears that *new*
> foreign keys, whether defined in new tables or added on via "ALTER
> TABLE" commands, make it into pg_constraint, but the "old" stuff that
> was present from before our 7.3 upgrade, exists only as triggers.
>
> 1) Is this a bug?
>
> 2) Is there any way to "refresh" pg_constraint? (I'm experimenting with
> a tool that graphs a schema, and it needs a bit of code written to
> determine from a table and column name whether that column is a foreign
> key, and to what table. pg_constraint where contype = 'f' seems to be
> the ticket, but on my database it's inadequate.)
>
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