Re: how to temporally disable foreign key constraint check - Mailing list pgsql-sql

Emi Lu wrote on 21.10.2011 15:36:
> Good morning,
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> Is there a way to temporally disabled foreign key constraints something like
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> SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0
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> When population is done, will set FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=1
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> Thanks a lot!
> Emi
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You can define the FKs as "DEFERRABLE INITIALLY IMMEDIATE".

Then at the start of your transaction you can defer constraint checking until you commit everything using:

SET CONSTRAINTS ALL DEFERRED;

Thomas