Re: ?Equiv to oracle (ENABLE|DISABLE) (CONSTRAINT|TRIGGER) statements?

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Bath, David wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Summary:
> Does postgresql have equivalents to the following Oracle statements?
> DISABLE CONSTRAINT ...
> ENABLE CONSTRAINT ...
> DISABLE TRIGGER ...
> ENABLE TRIGGER ...
>
> Background:
> One of the advantages of Oracle over some competitors such as MS-SQL
> and Sybase is the ability to toggle a constraint or trigger on and
> off, without blatting it, and without the hassle of finding any
> code and any accessory information (like comments, permissions...).
>
> BTW, I personally put C-style comments at the front of the clause so
> I can get the why's/how's into the syscatalogs - but I wear jackboots
> where documentation is concerned :-) and get at these for autodoccing
> and/or generation of meaningful messages to users when raising
> exception messages from the server.
>
> This capability is especially useful when there is some disgusting
> data-munging by a DBA, not just for import/export.
>
> I've tried grovelling through the sql from a pg_dump invoked with
> --disable-triggers, but it has no enable/disable triggers or
> constraints, merely creating primary/foreign constraints AFTER
> issuing the COPY.
>
> Yep, I'd expect this ONLY to work when issued by someone with DBA
> privs (and maybe the target object owner, although I imagine reasons
> that /might/ be a bad idea for paranoid info management governance).
>
> Thanks in advance
> --
> David T. Bath
> dave(dot)bath(at)unix(dot)net
>
>
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