Getting reference key elements in right orders

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To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Getting reference key elements in right orders
Date: 2010-05-17 09:53:25
Message-ID: 20100517095331.34646F48516@m5.so-net.net.tw
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Hi!

I need to know the match columns of referencing and referenced keys.

CREATE TABLE referenced (c1 TEXT,c2 TEXT, PRIMARY KEY(c1,c2));

CREATE TABLE referencing (c1 TEXT,c2 TEXT,c3 TEXT, PRIMARY KEY(c1,c2,c3), CONSTRAINT fk FOREIGN KEY (c1,c2) REFERENCES referenced (c1,c2));

The following SQL is similar to pg_get_constraintdef():

SELECT
ARRAY_TO_STRING(ARRAY(SELECT attname FROM pg_attribute WHERE attrelid=master.oid AND attnum=ANY(confkey)),';') AS master_columns
,ARRAY_TO_STRING(ARRAY(SELECT attname FROM pg_attribute WHERE attrelid=detail.oid AND attnum=ANY(conkey)),';') AS detail_columns
FROM pg_class master,pg_class detail,pg_constraint
WHERE master.relname='referenced' AND detail.relname='referencing'
AND confrelid=master.oid
AND conrelid=detail.oid
AND contype='f' AND confupdtype='c' AND confdeltype='c'

It appears to do the job like this:

master_columns detail_columns
------------------------------
c1;c2 c1;c2

However, I am not sure the referencing and referenced key elements in the above selected strings, master_columns and detail_columns, are guaranteed to be in correct order. I suspect they will become these from time to time:

master_columns detail_columns
------------------------------
c1;c2 c2;c1

I am thinking that sorting subscripts of array "pg_constraint.confkey" should guarantee the correct order, but I have no idea how to do that.

My questions are:

Is the above SQL reliable?
If it is not, how to make it reliable?

Thank you in advance!

CN

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