Thread: Referential Integrity

Referential Integrity

From
Rob
Date:
Hi all,

I've got a column in one of my tables that references another column in
another table
    i.e. barcode REFERENCES product(barcode)

Is there a way to drop this referential integrity for a while and then
reinstate it?



--
Rob

He who dies with the most toys ...

                    ... still dies


Re: Referential Integrity

From
"Joshua b. Jore"
Date:
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Temporarily disable the triggers on that table and then re-enable them
afterwards. The trick is to set pg_class.reltriggers = 0 to disable and
then restore it to the correct number of triggers afterward. Play with
pg_restore or search the recent (last month) archives for more on this.
If you give pg_restore enough information it will disable triggers oduring
the load. You'd want to read that for an example of the correct SQL. Also,
I posted last month two functions to disable/enable all non-system
triggers in on swell foop. Look in the archives for that.

Joshua b. Jore
http://www.greentechnologist.org

On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Rob wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've got a column in one of my tables that references another column in
> another table
>     i.e. barcode REFERENCES product(barcode)
>
> Is there a way to drop this referential integrity for a while and then
> reinstate it?
>
>
>
> --
> Rob
>
> He who dies with the most toys ...
>
>                     ... still dies
>
>
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