Re: Posgres Query for Foreign Key Check - Mailing list pgsql-admin

Jerry Sievers <gsievers19@comcast.net> writes:

> Raghavendra <raghavendra.rao@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 5:49 AM, Ankur Kaushik <ankurk@trimax.in> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi ,
>>
>>      
>>
>>     We are in Process of migration our Database from Mysql to Postgres .
>>
>>      
>>
>>     I want ot know How I can disable foreign key check in posgres just as in MySQL set session foreign_key_checks=0;
>>
>>      
>>
>> ​Try.​
>>
>> ​ALTER TABLE table_name DISABLE TRIGGER ALL; 
>
> Yeah but really *good* platforms like MySQL let you totally screw your
> whole DB with just one easy command.
>
> Why can't Postgres suck like that?

Oops!

It can if you subvert session_replication_role :-)  I'll leave doing
the details as a user exercise.

>
> FWIW
>
>
>>
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/sql-altertable.html
>>
>> ---
>> Regards,
>> Raghavendra
>> EnterpriseDB Corporation
>> Blog: http://raghavt.blogspot.com/
>>  
>>
>>     Regards
>>
>>     Ankur
>>
>>     DBA | Trimax Infrastructure
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