hi PGurus,
i searched the archives and read the docs, because this problem shouldn't be
new. But i really don't know what to search for.
i am populating a database (v7.4.1) with COPY. Some triggers in the db schema
fire on inserts and do some additional data manipulations, which i dont want
to take place by running COPY because my data don't need those additional
manipulation. Therefor and for performance reasons, i disable all triggers
with commands like this (stolen from pg_dump output)
UPDATE pg_catalog.pg_class SET reltriggers = 0 WHERE oid =
'Customers'::pg_catalog.regclass;
of course i enable them afterwards. This does in fact diable Foreign Key
Constraints too, right? And that's nice because i think its much faster.
My problem: my COPY data files are build by perl scripts which might be buggy.
i would like to check that all FKs are correct after or while populating the
data.
1. Can i disable my triggers without disabling FK constraints? if yes, how?
2. If no to question 1 or lacks performance:
can i check my database for violating FKs if i populated the database with FK
constraints disabled? I guess there is a SQL query which consults some
pg_catalog tables and checks all fk integrity
Any help is very appreciated.
kind regards,
janning
