pg_constraint
The catalog pg_constraint
stores check, primary key, unique, foreign key, and exclusion constraints on tables. (Column constraints are not treated specially. Every column constraint is equivalent to some table constraint.) Not-null constraints are represented in the pg_attribute
catalog, not here.
User-defined constraint triggers (created with CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER
) also give rise to an entry in this table.
Check constraints on domains are stored here, too.
Table 51.13. pg_constraint
Columns
Column Type Description |
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Row identifier |
Constraint name (not necessarily unique!) |
The OID of the namespace that contains this constraint |
|
Is the constraint deferrable? |
Is the constraint deferred by default? |
Has the constraint been validated? Currently, can only be false for foreign keys and CHECK constraints |
The table this constraint is on; 0 if not a table constraint |
The domain this constraint is on; 0 if not a domain constraint |
The index supporting this constraint, if it's a unique, primary key, foreign key, or exclusion constraint; else 0 |
The corresponding constraint in the parent partitioned table, if this is a constraint in a partition; else 0 |
If a foreign key, the referenced table; else 0 |
Foreign key update action code: |
Foreign key deletion action code: |
Foreign key match type: |
This constraint is defined locally for the relation. Note that a constraint can be locally defined and inherited simultaneously. |
The number of direct inheritance ancestors this constraint has. A constraint with a nonzero number of ancestors cannot be dropped nor renamed. |
This constraint is defined locally for the relation. It is a non-inheritable constraint. |
If a table constraint (including foreign keys, but not constraint triggers), list of the constrained columns |
If a foreign key, list of the referenced columns |
If a foreign key, list of the equality operators for PK = FK comparisons |
If a foreign key, list of the equality operators for PK = PK comparisons |
If a foreign key, list of the equality operators for FK = FK comparisons |
If an exclusion constraint, list of the per-column exclusion operators |
If a check constraint, an internal representation of the expression. (It's recommended to use |
In the case of an exclusion constraint, conkey
is only useful for constraint elements that are simple column references. For other cases, a zero appears in conkey
and the associated index must be consulted to discover the expression that is constrained. (conkey
thus has the same contents as pg_index
.indkey
for the index.)
pg_class.relchecks
needs to agree with the number of check-constraint entries found in this table for each relation.
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