On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 01:52:54PM -0400, Kynn Jones wrote:
> BTW, I realize that I can just drop and reinstate constraints, but
> from the point of view of writing a Perl script to do all this, it
> would be much easier if I could just disable temporarily all the FK
> constraints on a table.
Do you really want to disable the foreign key constraint, or just defer
their checking till you commit the transaction? If you just want to
defer checking, then [1] may help.
Sam
[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-set-constraints.html
