Re: how to find foreign key details (column, that is) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: how to find foreign key details (column, that is)
Date
Msg-id 200901211849.n0LIniA09458@momjian.us
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In response to Re: how to find foreign key details (column, that is)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: how to find foreign key details (column, that is)  (Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net> writes:
> > This is what my 8.3 manual says:
>
> > conkey │ int2[] │ pg_attribute.attnum │ If a table constraint, list of columns which the constraint constrains │
>
> > From that I wouldn't have figured it'd apply to foreign keys
> > as well. So I assume it is fair to say that "foreign keys
> > are one type of table constraint", right ?
>
> Right.  I think what the comment is actually trying to point out is that
> conkey isn't relevant to domain constraints, which also appear in
> pg_constraint.

Can someone come up with better documention wording for conkey?  I
can't:

    http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/catalog-pg-constraint.html

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