FOREIGN KEY after CREATE TABLE?
Peter Harvey <pharvey@codebydesign.com>
From: Peter Harvey <pharvey@codebydesign.com>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-08-25T22:37:50Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
How can i add foreign keys after the CREATE TABLE? Is there some combination of other SQL commands that will do the trick? My problem is; a. that I have a circular reference between 3 tables b. that I must be able to reverse engineer the resulting references in the shema by querying for foreign keys Right now I am calculating a dependency hierarchy and generating tables in the resulting order but this does not work for a circular ref. Aside from the circular ref issues... i think it would be easier and safer to be able to generate all of the tables in one pass (with primary key defs) and then add the foreign keys in a second pass. Any help appreciated. Peter