Re: how to save primary key constraints - Mailing list pgsql-general

From John R Pierce
Subject Re: how to save primary key constraints
Date
Msg-id 4E94B541.3050708@hogranch.com
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In response to how to save primary key constraints  ("J.V." <jvsrvcs@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: how to save primary key constraints  ("J.V." <jvsrvcs@gmail.com>)
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On 10/11/11 2:16 PM, J.V. wrote:
> I need to be able to query for all primary keys and save the table
> name and the name of the primary key field into some structure that I
> can iterate through later.
>
> How would I go about this?  I want to hard code the number of tables
> and be able to iterate through some structure to get the table name
> and the primary key field.

that info is all in pg_catalog... pg_tables is a view of all tables...
if you left join that with pg_index qualified by indisprimary, you'll
probably get what you need.  you'll probably need to join pg_namespace
to get the index name from its oid.



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john r pierce                            N 37, W 122
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