From: Erik Jones <erik@myemma.com>
To: Matthew T. O'Connor <matthew@zeut.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Finding all References to a Primary Key
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:24:39 -0500
Message-ID: <00F59014-2C8B-49D6-8ED8-57C34AC7ADF7@myemma.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47EA93B2.8000206@zeut.net>
References: <47EA93B2.8000206@zeut.net>
On Mar 26, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> I'm sorry if this is has been discussed, but I tried to find the
> answer in the archives and failed, so...
>
> How do I find all the rows in other tables that reference a specific
> row in another table? I'm only trying to find rows that are in
> tables where there is a Foreign Key referencing the primary key of
> the table in question.
>
> Example:
> Table People has a primary key of people_id
> There are say 20 tables that have foreign keys referencing
> people.people_id
> How do I find all the rows in all of those 20 tables that reference
> a particular person in the people table?
pg_catalog.pg_constraint has that info.
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