Re: How to get a table's constraints - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

From Kris Jurka
Subject Re: How to get a table's constraints
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.33.0402050947230.22209-100000@leary.csoft.net
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In response to How to get a table's constraints  (Carlos Correia <carlos@m16e.com>)
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On 5 Feb 2004, Carlos Correia wrote:

> Is there any way of obtaining a list of the constraints (table
> constraints and column constraints) of a table? I mean, other then the
> foreign key's description (getImportedKeys and getExportedKeys)?
>

You get retrive NOT NULL constraints by checking the NULLABLE column in
DatabaseMetaData.getColumns().  If you are referring to check constraints
the only way to retrieve that is by manually querying the system catalogs,
although 7.4 has a view information_schema.check_constraints which makes
this easy.  JDBC doesn't have any concept of theses constraints because
there is no portable way of representing them.

Kris Jurka


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