Re: Res: Finding all tables that have foreign keys referencing a table

On Friday 07 November 2008 21:09:33 Tom Lane wrote:
> Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no> writes:
> > AFAICS this lists all tables which have a column named '?', which is not what I'm after. I'm after listing all
columnsreferencing a certain column as a FOREIGN KEY. 
>
> Should be possible to dredge that out of pg_constraint ... about like
> this:
>
> select confrelid::regclass, af.attname as fcol,
>        conrelid::regclass, a.attname as col
> from pg_attribute af, pg_attribute a,
>   (select conrelid,confrelid,conkey[i] as conkey, confkey[i] as confkey
>    from (select conrelid,confrelid,conkey,confkey,
>                 generate_series(1,array_upper(conkey,1)) as i
>          from pg_constraint where contype = 'f') ss) ss2
> where af.attnum = confkey and af.attrelid = confrelid and
>       a.attnum = conkey and a.attrelid = conrelid;
>
> Deconstructing those arrays in parallel is a bit of a pain :-(

What can I say, you're the man. Thank you very much!

Needless to say that it would be nice if this information was available in the information_schema, I'm probably not the
onlyone spending lots of time in there. It's probably not in in the standard, but i would be a nice PG-extention to
allowretrieving that info in a more intuitive way. 

For the archive, here is a complete example with table_name and column_name:

select confrelid::regclass, af.attname as fcol,      conrelid::regclass, a.attname as col
from pg_attribute af, pg_attribute a, (select conrelid,confrelid,conkey[i] as conkey, confkey[i] as confkey  from
(selectconrelid,confrelid,conkey,confkey,               generate_series(1,array_upper(conkey,1)) as i        from
pg_constraintwhere contype = 'f') ss) ss2 
where af.attnum = confkey and af.attrelid = confrelid and     a.attnum = conkey and a.attrelid = conrelid  AND
confrelid::regclass= 'my_table'::regclass AND af.attname = 'my_referenced_column'; 

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