Re: Drop Foreign Key

From: "Gregory Wood" <gregw(at)com-stock(dot)com>
To: "Stephan Szabo" <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
Cc: "PostgreSQL-General" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Drop Foreign Key
Date: 2002-01-31 20:18:29
Message-ID: 002101c1aa94$738f7df0$7889ffcc@comstock.com
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> > I'd like to drop a foreign key constraint on a table. I know there are a
> > number of triggers created by a FK, but how many, how do I find them to
> > delete them, and what other gotchas might I find when removing the
> > constaint(s)?
> >
> > It looks like there is an INSERT/UPDATE trigger on the main table, and
two
> > more on the table it's keyed into (one UPDATE, one DELETE)? If this is
true,
> > can I just delete those three triggers and be done with it?
>
> You should probably use DROP TRIGGER on them, and you'll need to double
> quote the trigger name.

I'll be happy to do so (although right now I'm wishing I provided explicit
names... "RI_ConstraintTrigger_160453997" is a mouthfull). But am I right
that I need to drop those three and only those three? Are there any other
things I need to worry about?

Greg

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