Re: [GENERAL] How to enumerate foreign key constraints after

Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>

From: Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>
To: Forest Wilkinson <lyris-pg@tibit.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-06-11T20:01:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> >Yes, a combination of the two would probably be better.  You would need
> >to be careful about function call names for FKeys, there are a fair
> >number of them.  Checking for 3 triggers with the function name starting
> >with RI_FKey* would probably be better.
> 
> Will the tgisconstraint flag always be set for these triggers?  Will
> the function names still be RI_FKey* once these databases are migrated
> to postgres 7.4 or later?

Until someone has a good reason to change things, they'll probably stay
the same, so you will probably get a release or two out of it.

But it is much easier to change the internal structures now, as
PostgreSQL doesn't have nearly as much of a backward compatibility issue
anymore.

-- 
Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>

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