Re: Query about foreign key details for php framework - Mailing list pgsql-sql

On 02/28/2016 03:42 PM, David Binney wrote:
> Hey adrian,
>
>    rc.constraint_name AS name,
>    tc.constraint_type AS type,
>    kcu.column_name,
>    rc.match_option AS match_type,
>    rc.update_rule AS on_update,
>    rc.delete_rule AS on_delete,
>    kcu.table_name AS references_table,
>    kcu.column_name AS references_field,
>    kcu.ordinal_position
>
> Those are the columns that i need as a minimum, but as you know they are
> all easy apart from the rules "on update" from the "RC" table.

I am not following, update_rule is just a field in
information_schema.referential_constraints, how is it any harder then
delete_rule?

The issue from what I understand is that
information_schema.referential_constraints does not have a table_name
field to constrain the information to a particular table. This leads
back to the overriding question, what is the purpose of the query? I
suspect it for use by the framework to set up attributes of a model
based on a table, is that correct?

>
> I did start having a crack at the catalog tables but that is pretty
> complicated.
>
> On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 at 01:21 Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
> <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 02/26/2016 08:29 PM, David Binney wrote:
>      > Hey adrian,
>      >
>      > You are correct that the distinct will chomp the resultset down
>     to the
>      > correct count, I am just concerned that there will be cases where it
>      > might not be accurate between the "rc" and the "kcu" joins as
>     there is
>      > no table reference. I have simplified the query right down to
>     just the
>      > join that i am unsure about. You can see below that as soon as i
>     add the
>      > rc.unique_constraint_name, the distinct is no longer returning
>     one row.
>      > In this case its fine because the rc values are the same and would
>      > distinct away, but there might be a case where they are diferent
>     and you
>      > would have two rows and not know which values are correct?
>      >
>
>     Well it comes down to the question that was asked several times
>     upstream:
>
>     what is the information you want to see?
>
>     I am not talking about a query, but a description of what attributes you
>     want on what database objects.
>
>     Also given, from previous post:
>
>     "I am a little in the dark as well since this is just a broken piece of
>     ORM i am attempting to fix, in the framework."
>
>     Is this not something that should be discussed with the framework
>     developers, or are we already doing that:)?
>
>
>
>     --
>     Adrian Klaver
>     adrian.klaver@aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
>
> --
> Cheers David Binney


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