Re: RI triggers and schemas

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Stephan Szabo" <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Jan Wieck" <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: RI triggers and schemas
Date: 2002-04-01 06:00:30
Message-ID: 007801c1d942$887459c0$0200a8c0@SOL
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> Yeah, although it'd still be a good idea probably to convert the dump form
> to ALTER TABLE in any case. The one downside that was brought up in the
> past was the time involved in checking dumped (presumably correct) data
> when the constraint is added to very large tables. I can probably make
> that faster since right now it's just running the check on each row,
> but it'll still be slow on big tables possibly. Another option would
> be to have an argument that would disable the check on an add constraint,
> except that wouldn't work for unique/primary key.

Maybe it could be a really evil SET CONSTRAINTS command like:

SET CONSTRAINTS UNCHECKED;

...

Chris

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