From: Craig Ringer <ringerc@ringerc.id.au>
To: emilu@encs.concordia.ca
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: how to temporally disable foreign key constraint check
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 07:51:27 +0800
Message-ID: <4EA2057F.3000002@ringerc.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EA17562.4030202@encs.concordia.ca>
References: <4EA17562.4030202@encs.concordia.ca>
On 10/21/2011 09:36 PM, Emi Lu wrote:
> 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
If you really, really want to do this you can do it by disabling the
triggers that enforce the checks on particular tables. This must be done
table-by-table, there's no global way to do it.
Use ALTER TABLE ... DISABLE TRIGGER to do it. See:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-altertable.html
--
Craig Ringer
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