Re: Display of foreign keys in psql

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Tom Lane<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Greg Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>> So perhaps something like:
>
>> Referenced by:
>> TABLE test2 CONSTRAINT test2_y_fkey FOREIGN KEY (y) REFERENCES test1(a);
>
> +1
>
> ... although making it *really* copy-and-pastable would require a bit
> more attention to detail than I bet it's gotten.  (Schema qualification
> and double-quoting-at-need being the likely trouble spots.)  Still,
> we can fix that later if we have the basic appearance being compatible
> with that goal.

Even there the "TABLE" is kind of optional. It would stlil make sense as

Referenced by:
test2 CONSTRAINT test2_y_fkey FOREIGN KEY (y) REFERENCES test1(a)

and even like that it looks like it's the widest line in the printout

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Gregory Stark
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