Re: [NOVICE] Suspend Referential Integrity?

JJ> I'm trying to port a database from Oracle to PostgreSQL. I used a perl script,
JJ> ora2pg to extract the info from Oracle.

JJ> The table data was extracted in alphabetical order. When I attempt to load it,
JJ> I get referential integrity violations (eg. I attempt to load CUSTOMER, but
JJ> CUSTOMOER depends on the SOURCE table, which hasn't been loaded yet).

JJ> Is there a way to temporarily suspend RI checking so I can load the data and
JJ> then fix it later?

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You can switch off all triggers on a table.

update pg_class set reltriggers=0 where relname='your_table_name';

To switch back:

update pg_class set reltriggers=(select count(*) from pg_triggers
where pg_class.oid=tgrelid) where relname='your_table_name';

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