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From: Emi Lu <emilu@encs.concordia.ca>
To: Oliveiros d'Azevedo Cristina <oliveiros.cristina@marktest.pt>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: how to temporally disable foreign key constraint check
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:47:19 -0400
Message-ID: <4EA19407.5080208@encs.concordia.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49712385AAF34516B1CA6890916206DE@marktestcr.marktest.pt>
References: <4EA17562.4030202@encs.concordia.ca>
	<49712385AAF34516B1CA6890916206DE@marktestcr.marktest.pt>

Not really, sorry :(

What I am looking for is no DB structure changes.

But only disabling foreign key constraint check/verify for period of 
time and then recover it.

Similar to mysql's "set FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = true/false"

Emi



On 10/21/2011 10:58 AM, Oliveiros d'Azevedo Cristina wrote:
> Something like
>
> ALTER TABLE t_yourtable DROP CONSTRAINT
> and then
> ALTER TABLE t_yourtable ADD FOREIGN KEY
> ?
>
> Best,
> Oliveiros
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Emi Lu" <emilu@encs.concordia.ca>
> To: <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 2:36 PM
> Subject: [SQL] how to temporally disable foreign key constraint check
>
>
>> Good morning,
>>
>>
>> Is there a way to temporally disabled foreign key constraints
>> something like
>>
>> SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0
>>
>> When population is done, will set FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=1
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>> Emi
>>
>> --
>> Emi Lu, ENCS, Concordia University, Montreal H3G 1M8
>> emilu@encs.concordia.ca +1 514 848-2424 x5884
>>
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Emi Lu, ENCS, Concordia University, Montreal H3G 1M8
emilu@encs.concordia.ca        +1 514 848-2424 x5884



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