Re: how to temporally disable foreign key constraint check

From: Emi Lu <emilu(at)encs(dot)concordia(dot)ca>
To: "Oliveiros d'Azevedo Cristina" <oliveiros(dot)cristina(at)marktest(dot)pt>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: how to temporally disable foreign key constraint check
Date: 2011-10-21 15:47:19
Message-ID: 4EA19407.5080208@encs.concordia.ca
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Not really, sorry :(

What I am looking for is no DB structure changes.

But only disabling foreign key constraint check/verify for period of
time and then recover it.

Similar to mysql's "set FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = true/false"

Emi

On 10/21/2011 10:58 AM, Oliveiros d'Azevedo Cristina wrote:
> Something like
>
> ALTER TABLE t_yourtable DROP CONSTRAINT
> and then
> ALTER TABLE t_yourtable ADD FOREIGN KEY
> ?
>
> Best,
> Oliveiros
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Emi Lu" <emilu(at)encs(dot)concordia(dot)ca>
> To: <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 2:36 PM
> Subject: [SQL] how to temporally disable foreign key constraint check
>
>
>> Good morning,
>>
>>
>> Is there a way to temporally disabled foreign key constraints
>> something like
>>
>> SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0
>>
>> When population is done, will set FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=1
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>> Emi
>>
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