Oleg wrote:
> Dear All,
> is it possible to temporary deactivate a constraint in PostgreSQL?
> There is a constraint that does not allow me to write some data (see
> e-mail below). But after all datasets are written the constraint is
> valid. So I was wondering wether it is possible to deactivate a
> constraint write all records in all tables then activate constraint
> again. Somebody told me that it is possible in Oracle.
> Thanks a lot in advance
> Oleg
Have you tried to make the Foreign Key deferrable and initially deferred?
See:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/sql-createtable.html
HTH
Sebastian
