Re: ADD FOREIGN KEY (was Re: [GENERAL] 7.4Beta)

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Well, we haven't even *got* a proposed patch yet, but yeah we should
> >> tread carefully.
> 
> > OK.  What releases had this slow restore problem?
> 
> We introduced it in 7.3 --- before that, FKs were simply dumped as
> "create trigger" commands, and there was no check overhead.  So arguably
> it is a bug; a performance bug maybe, but that's still a bug.  No one
> has yet gone through a dump/reload cycle in which they had to face this
> penalty.

Now that is a strong argument. I knew you would find one.  :-)

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