Re: pg_constraint and constraint triggers - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dave Page
Subject Re: pg_constraint and constraint triggers
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Msg-id 50116.80.177.99.193.1051347197.squirrel@ssl.vale-housing.co.uk
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In response to Re: pg_constraint and constraint triggers  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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It's rumoured that Tom Lane once said:
> "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:
>> I couldn't find anything obvious in the archives, but if I dump a
>> database created in 7.2, then foreign keys are created using CREATE
>> CONSTRAINT TRIGGER statement. These do not appear to create entries in
>> pg_constraint in 7.3.x, so as the database is developed further, we
>> end up with 2 'styles' of fkeys in the catalogues.
>
> contrib/adddepend/ is supposed to help out with upgrading definitions
> loaded from old databases.  Possibly you could adapt its logic into a
> "fix things" operation in pgAdmin.

Ahh thanks. I had a browse through /contrib but obviously missed that.

Regards, Dave.



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