Re: altering foreign key without a table scan - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: altering foreign key without a table scan
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Msg-id 9988.1313772901@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: altering foreign key without a table scan  (Vincent de Phily <vincent.dephily@mobile-devices.fr>)
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Vincent de Phily <vincent.dephily@mobile-devices.fr> writes:
> On Friday 19 August 2011 11:52:50 Tom Lane wrote:
>> IIRC, there are fields of pg_constraint that are copied into the
>> pg_trigger rows for the supporting triggers, so as to save one catalog
>> lookup at run time.  If you diddle one manually, you'd better diddle
>> both.

> Some relid values are indeed duplicated in pg_constraint and pg_trigger, but
> it doesn't look like I need to fiddle with those ?

> I'm only touching pg_trigger.tgfoid and pg_constraint.confdeltype/confupdtype
> (which indeed seem to say the same thing in a different way). Do you know if
> there is something else I've missed ?

Yeah, that seems to be it except for the deferrable/deferred fields,
which match up in the obvious way.  I had been thinking the RI triggers
avoided doing a lookup in pg_constraint, but that was mistaken.  (I
think we used to store all that info in tgargs, but we evidently don't
anymore.)

            regards, tom lane

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