Re: dropping foreign key - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Joseph Shraibman
Subject Re: dropping foreign key
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Msg-id 3BD72EBF.5020709@selectacast.net
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In response to Re: dropping foreign key  (Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>)
Responses Re: dropping foreign key  (Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>)
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Can I just set  tgenabled to false?

Stephan Szabo wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Joseph Shraibman wrote:
> 
> 
>>I have to drop a froeign key from one of my tables.  The problem is that I have another 
>>table that has a foreign key on the first one, so I can't do the select to temp-table 
>>thing and move it back.
>>
>>Is there any way I can remove it by mucking with pg's internal tables?
>>
> 
> Yeah.  All you should need to do is remove the three triggers that
> were created for the constraint (1 on the fk table, 2 on the pk table).
> You can find them in pg_trigger and you'll need to double quote the 
> names for the drop trigger statements because they're mixed case.
> 
> 


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