Find all foreign keys and dropping them from a script. - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Robert Landsmeer
Subject Find all foreign keys and dropping them from a script.
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Hello all,

 

I am having a hard time finding all foreign keys on my database trough a script and then removing them.

The reason I need to do this is that the application I am using has data that has been altered within an update of the product.

To update the database we have a script that will execute all the data updates of the product. Since the updater isn’t aware of what updates need to be done before other updates FK-wise we get all kinds of errors about incorrect data, and the script fails.  So we want to drop all foreign keys, insert a lot of data, and then re-add all foreign keys. We already have a script that re-adds all foreign keys and also adds the new foreign keys for the new product release.

 

So at the moment I am looking for a way to get all current FK’s trough a JDBC connection. Since a script will auto generate the drop key scripts it would be nice to have a way to do this. But after some searching on the internet I could not find a nice way of doing this (if I have missed a resource, please feel free to point me to it J ).

 

Thanks in advance,

Robert

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