Re: Legacy foreign keys

From: "Peter Koczan" <pjkoczan(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Legacy foreign keys
Date: 2008-02-02 19:43:15
Message-ID: 4544e0330802021143n2d38dce8k4ff9ab271aa35c2a@mail.gmail.com
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> Yeah, it's expecting to see a set of three related triggers. For
> instance, if I do this in a 7.0 database:
> ...
> If your original database doesn't have all three triggers, then you had
> a problem already --- the FK constraint wasn't being enforced properly.

Ah, these were from before I became the main database admin. It was
probably some previous admin or programmer who thought he could be
clever and drop the other FK-related triggers.

> In 8.3, you could look for the pg_trigger entries with zero tgconstraint
> values. However, prior versions don't have that column; you'd have to
> look instead for entries that aren't linked to a pg_constraint entry
> by a pg_depend entry.

Thanks again, I should have enough info to fix this now.

Peter

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