Re: Anyone working on pg_dump dependency ordering?

On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 16:53, Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Stephan Szabo wrote:
>
> >You're going to potentially have the constraints scattered in any case due
> >to circular dependency chains. I'd think that having all the constraints
> >in one place would be easier than trying to go through the list of tables
> >that might be in a circular chain in order to find the constraints.
> >
> >
> I still disagree. cyclic dependencies should be avoided anyhow. You'll
> get an awful lot of trouble loading data in such a case. Some database
> systems refuse to create such stuff right away (mssql).

CREATE TABLE a (col integer primary key);
CREATE TABLE b (col integer primary key);
ALTER TABLE a ADD FOREIGN KEY (col) REFERENCES b INITIALLY DEFERRED;
ALTER TABLE b ADD FOREIGN KEY (col) REFERENCES a;

How does MSSQL deal with the above?