Re: drop constraint problem

From the reference page for ALTER TABLE:

"Currently DROP CONSTRAINT drops only CHECK constraints. To remove FOREIGN
KEY constraints you need to recreate and reload the table, using other
parameters to the CREATE TABLE command."

However, I think the following is also safe:

create table p (id serial primary key);

create table c (id int);

alter table c add constraint c_ref_p foreign key (id) references p;

select * from pg_trigger;
-- look at actual names of trigger, above, and substitute below

drop trigger "RI_ConstraintTrigger_16573" on c;
drop trigger "RI_ConstraintTrigger_16575" on p;
drop trigger "RI_ConstraintTrigger_16577" on p;

Hope this helps. Some background on playing in the RI table is at
http://techdocs.postgresql.org/techdocs/hackingreferentialintegrity.php

Joel BURTON | joel(at)joelburton(dot)com | joelburton.com | aim: wjoelburton
Knowledge Management & Technology Consultant

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> Subject: [SQL] drop constraint problem
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>
> Hi all,
>
> i'm running 7.2.1 and have problems with dropping constraints:
>
> fakt32=# alter table wkfaktzeilen
> add constraint printjobfk foreign key (printjob)
> references wkfaktdruck(printjob)
> match full
> on delete cascade
> on update cascade;
> >ALTER
>
> fakt32=# alter table wkfaktzeilen drop constraint printjobfk restrict;
> >ERROR: ALTER TABLE / DROP CONSTRAINT: printjobfk does not exist
>
> fakt32=# alter table wkfaktdruck drop constraint printjobfk restrict;
> >ERROR: ALTER TABLE / DROP CONSTRAINT: printjobfk does not exist
>
> but when dropping the table, the triggers are deleted and i can see the
> entries
> in pg_triggers??
>
> please help
> Wolfgang
>
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