From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
To: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>
To: Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Childs <Blue.Dragon@blueyonder.co.uk>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] 7.4Beta
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:44:01 +0800
Message-ID: <25c101c362f8$9cdff400$2800a8c0@mars> (raw)
References: <20030814231203.P6635-100000@megazone.bigpanda.com>
> We've talked about stuff like that in the past, but we seem to generally
> get stuck about how to specify it. If we add it to the alter table add as
> an option then we're generating statements that are almost like a standard
> sql statement, but not quite, and some people didn't like that. A set
> option that only affected ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT wouldn't be too bad,
> but I'd be worried about making it apply to the normal checks as well
> (which I believe was suggested last time this came up). In any case,
> making the full checks faster for when you really do care isn't a bad
> plan. :)
Or, this:
1. Add the FK to the table BEFORE COPYing data
2. Use the old update blah set reltriggers = 0 trick
3. restore the data
4. Undo step 2
Chris
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