Found this in 7.4.5, verified it's still in 8.0b4:
test=> select * from information_schema.referential_constraints;
test|public|$1|test|public|reftest1_pkey|NONE|NO ACTION|CASCADE
test|public|$1|test|public|reftest1_pkey|NONE|NO ACTION|NO ACTION
test|public|$1|test|public|reftest1_pkey|NONE|NO ACTION|NO ACTION
In that case there are three tables all referencing the same column of a
fourth - but there is no way at all to tell which row corresponds to which
table, and hence no way to join against, say, table_constraints.
A similar issue may exist with the check_constraints view, which was the
only other place I found where constraint_name is used without any table
name being present. I don't know what the spec says, but it seems that
something is assuming that constraint_name is unique within the schema,
which of course is not the case in the above example.
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