Hi Mike,

If your foreign keys are all single-attribute, you can solve the problem easily by only using the first element of each key.

I like to use the following view to examine foreign keys:

CREATE VIEW fkey AS
SELECT t.relname AS tab, c.attname AS col, ft.relname AS ftab, fc.attname AS fcol
FROM pg_constraint fk
INNER JOIN pg_class t ON fk.conrelid=t.oid
INNER JOIN pg_attribute c ON fk.conkey[1]=c.attnum AND c.attrelid=t.oid
INNER JOIN pg_class ft ON fk.confrelid=ft.oid
INNER JOIN pg_attribute fc ON fk.confkey[1]=fc.attnum AND fc.attrelid=ft.oid
WHERE fk.contype = 'f'
;

Note "confkey[1]=..." in the join condition. Of course, if the FK uses multiple columns at either end the whole thing becomes rapidly useless.

HTH

BJ

mike.griffin@mygenerationsoftware.com wrote:

Joe, I'm sorry but I cannot create functions or anything like that, it's
all has to be a select statement (or series of select statements). Users
pull up our product and browse all the databases and scheme's and such, if
we asked them to create functions or if we did it through calls it would
be intrusive.

I tried to flatten out the function into a nested query but couldn't quite
get it right, is it possible to embed the select statement in the function
into the main select statement?

- Mike

mike.griffin@mygenerationsoftware.com wrote:

The query below will return all of the foreign keys in the current
schema,
I get the ForeignKey name as FK_NAME and both the primary and foreign
table's name and schema, now I just need the columns involved in the
foreign key itself, there is a column called confkey in pg_constraint
and
it's an array?  It holds the column id

It is an array because foreign keys can have more than one participating
field -- how do you want that represented? Here's a way that you can get
an array of the participating field names, assuming you're using
Postgres 7.4.x:

create or replace function getattnames(oid, smallint[])
returns name[] as '
   select array(select attname from pg_attribute
                where attrelid = $1
                and attnum = any ($2))
' language sql;

SELECT cl.relname as TABLE_NAME,
        cr.relname as FK_TABLE_NAME,
        getattnames(ct.conrelid, ct.conkey) as TBL_ATTS,
        getattnames(ct.confrelid, ct.confkey) as FK_TBL_ATTS
FROM pg_constraint ct
JOIN pg_class cl ON cl.oid=conrelid
JOIN pg_namespace nl ON nl.oid=cl.relnamespace
JOIN pg_class cr ON cr.oid=confrelid
JOIN pg_namespace nr ON nr.oid=cr.relnamespace
LEFT OUTER JOIN pg_description des ON des.objoid=ct.oid
WHERE contype='f';

      table_name     |   fk_table_name    |  tbl_atts   | fk_tbl_atts
--------------------+--------------------+-------------+-------------
  rule_and_refint_t3 | rule_and_refint_t1 | {id3a,id3b} | {id1a,id1b}
  rule_and_refint_t3 | rule_and_refint_t2 | {id3a,id3c} | {id2a,id2c}
  fktable            | pktable            | {fk}        | {id}
  clstr_tst          | clstr_tst_s        | {b}         | {rf_a}
(4 rows)

HTH,

Joe

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