Re: How to deactivate FK's to reorder fields in table? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Raymond O'Donnell
Subject Re: How to deactivate FK's to reorder fields in table?
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Msg-id 4AD4ECB6.8030808@iol.ie
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In response to How to deactivate FK's to reorder fields in table?  (Andre Lopes <lopes80andre@gmail.com>)
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On 13/10/2009 20:17, Andre Lopes wrote:

> I need to reorder fields in one table. But the database don't let me do this
> action because the FK's pointing to the table. How can I deactivate the
> FK's?

You can't reorder columns in PostgreSQL, so I'm guessing that you're
trying to drop and re-creating the table, and begin prevented from doing
so by FK dependencies from other tables - would that be correct?

If so, you can just drop the FKs and recreate them afterwards.

Ray.

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