Thread: automatic detection of nomore references rows

automatic detection of nomore references rows

From
Nabil Sayegh
Date:
Hi all,

here's my question of the day:

Since 7.3 now has some more intelligent FOREIGN KEYs (i.e. pg_dump still
knows that certain triggers serve as foreign keys)
is it possible to detect unreferenced rows ?

e.g.:

upload
--------------------
id_upload | filename

picture
--------------------
id_upload | orientation

attachement
--------------------
id_upload | name

Of course I could detect unreferenced rows myself with NOT EXISTS etc.
but as I have many tables that reference upload it would be more
convenient to

SELECT id_upload FROM upload WHERE id_upload IS UNREFERENCED

or something like that.

bye
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