| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>, Peter Childs <Blue(dot)Dragon(at)blueyonder(dot)co(dot)uk>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: ADD FOREIGN KEY (was Re: [GENERAL] 7.4Beta) |
| Date: | 2003-09-29 04:02:48 |
| Message-ID: | 200309290402.h8T42mH26971@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> You could just as easily argue that the lack of integrity testing at
> data load time was equally a bug.
>
> I think we need someway of telling postgres to suppress a foreign key check.
>
> The main problem is that the foreign key column is often not indexed.
As I remember, the new code is showing full table checks of a few
seconds, rather than minutes, but I agree we do need a way to turn off
checks some times.
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