Thread: how to find referenced column and table

Hello everyone,

I have a db with lots of relations like this:

    create table country (
      code varchar primary key,
        name varchar not null
    );
    create table customer (
        code varchar primary key,
        name varchar not null,
        country references country (code)
    );

Now I'm building a PHP function that creates an HTML form to change one
row of table CUSTOMER. It's a generic function, it should work on any
table, and it should be able to recognise if a row references another
table, so that a pulldown list can be created dynamically. In this case
a pulldown with all COUNTRY codes in it.

    CUSTOMER
    code            [    ]
    name            [             ]
    country    [pick one...[V]

So what I'm looking for is a query that will tell me that row A of
table B references row X of table Y. How would I do this?

TIA for any pointers / help!

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Jules Alberts.

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Jules Alberts wrote:

> Now I'm building a PHP function that creates an HTML form to change one
> row of table CUSTOMER. It's a generic function, it should work on any
> table, and it should be able to recognise if a row references another
> table, so that a pulldown list can be created dynamically. In this case
> a pulldown with all COUNTRY codes in it.
>
>     CUSTOMER
>     code            [    ]
>     name            [             ]
>     country    [pick one...[V]
>
> So what I'm looking for is a query that will tell me that row A of
> table B references row X of table Y. How would I do this?

I think someone just recently sent a function to the -sql (I think) list
to get the foreign key constraint information and I know that such
functions have been sent in the past so the archives and
techdocs.postgresql.org may be some help.