Re: ALTER TABLE ... ADD FOREIGN KEY ... NOT ENFORCED

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <peter(dot)geoghegan86(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ALTER TABLE ... ADD FOREIGN KEY ... NOT ENFORCED
Date: 2011-06-03 17:02:51
Message-ID: 1307120536-sup-3663@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of vie jun 03 09:34:03 -0400 2011:

> > Just a note that since Alvaro created a patch to provide similar
> > functionality for constraints, I identified an issue with database
> > dumps, which apparently affects invalid foreign keys too:
> > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-06/msg00162.php
> >
> > In other words, a database containing foreign keys that hasn't yet
> > been validated will not produce a dump containing the necessary NOT
> > VALID parameters.  This would be fixed by Alvaro's patch.
>
> Sounds like someone needs to extract and apply that portion of
> Alvaro's patch. I've added this to the open items list.

It's already a separate patch; I'll apply soon.

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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