Ben Liblit <liblit@eecs.berkeley.edu> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Try psql's \d command to check out constraint names.
>
> That did it. Thank you for the speedy reply.
>
> (I can't help but shake my head at the design of ALTER TABLE's constraint
> manipulation facilities, whose non-orthogonality requires one to step
> outside the language and use things like "\d" to accomplish this sort of
> task. Perhaps when I have more database experience under my belt that
> will feel like less of a kludge.)
'\d' and friends in psql are just shorthand for queries against the
system catalogs. So you're not "stepping outside the language",
really.
If you do 'psql -E' you can see the queries generated by the various
backslash commands.
-Doug
