Re: Locating ( FKs ) References to a Primary Key

I have a couple of views I always add to 'information_schema' to help
with these sorts of things.

Here's the one for foreign keys:

CREATE VIEW information_schema.foreign_key_tables AS SELECT
n.nspname AS schema,
cl.relname AS table_name,
a.attname AS column_name,
ct.conname AS key_name,
nf.nspname AS foreign_schema,
clf.relname AS foreign_table_name,
af.attname AS foreign_column_name,
pg_get_constraintdef(ct.oid) AS create_sql

FROM pg_catalog.pg_attribute a
JOIN pg_catalog.pg_class cl ON (a.attrelid = cl.oid AND cl.relkind =
'r')
JOIN pg_catalog.pg_namespace n ON (n.oid = cl.relnamespace)
JOIN pg_catalog.pg_constraint ct ON (a.attrelid = ct.conrelid AND
ct.confrelid != 0 AND ct.conkey[1] = a.attnum)
JOIN pg_catalog.pg_class clf ON (ct.confrelid = clf.oid AND clf.relkind
= 'r')
JOIN pg_catalog.pg_namespace nf ON (nf.oid = clf.relnamespace)
JOIN pg_catalog.pg_attribute af ON (af.attrelid = ct.confrelid AND
af.attnum = ct.confkey[1])
;
GRANT SELECT ON information_schema.foreign_key_tables TO PUBLIC;

Searching the 'foreign_*' fields for your schema/table/column will give
you all the tables that reference it in a foreign key constraint. I
also provide the SQL used to create the constraint, since the purpose of
this is to drop and then recreate dependencies when reloading a single
table.

Hope that gets you started,
Dmitri

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-sql-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> [mailto:pgsql-sql-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Roger Motorola
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 3:07 PM
> To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: [SQL] Locating ( FKs ) References to a Primary Key
>
>
> Hi to all,
>
> Is there any means by which one can get all Foreign Keys
> (References) that 'point' to a certain Primary Key for a given table ?
>
> For instance, let's consider those three tables:
>
> (NOTE: table contents here are not deeply thought of...)
>
> // employees table
> create table emp
> (id serial primary key,
> first_name varchar not null,
> last_name varchar not null,
> .....................etc.);
>
> // employee address
> create table emp_address
> (emp_id integer references emp (id),
> city integer references city (id),
> primary key (emp_id, city),
> comments varchar not null);
>
> // employee categories ()
> create table emp_categories
> (emp_id integer references emp (id),
> institution integer references institutions (id),
> unique (emp_id, institution),
> category integer references categories (id),
> primary key (emp_id, institution, category),
> description varchar not null);
>
>
> So, can we issue a query that gets all references to emp.id ?
> which should yield here:
> emp_address.emp_id
> and emp_categories.emp_id
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Roger Tannous.
>
>
>
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