Finding all tables that have foreign keys referencing a table

From: Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak(at)officenet(dot)no>
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Finding all tables that have foreign keys referencing a table
Date: 2008-11-06 21:35:23
Message-ID: 200811062235.23267.andreak@officenet.no
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Hi.
I see the last comment here suggests a solution for $subject:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/ddl-constraints.html

But it turns out it assumes constraint_name is unique, which is not the case. It is only unique pr. table. In other words, it produces a lot of false results.

I'm trying to make a function which finds all my old "$1" constraints and replaces those names with proper names (_fkey).

So - anybody who knows a good solution for how to find all tables with constraint-names that have foreign keys referencing a table's particluar colum?

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