Re: How to temporarily disable a table's FK constraints?

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On 11/05/07 10:50, Kynn Jones wrote:
> Hi, everyone.
>
> Is there a standard way to disable a table foreign-key constraint temporarily?
>
> I thought that this would be a fairly common thing to want to do, but
> I only found this snippet online:
>
> -- to disable
> UPDATE pg_class SET reltriggers=0 WHERE relname = 'your_table';
>
> -- to re-enable
> UPDATE pg_class SET reltriggers = count( * )
>   FROM pg_trigger WHERE pg_class.oid=tgrelid AND relname = 'your_table';
>
> and it appears that one needs to be root to execute these statements.
>
> Is there any other way for non-root users?

The whole idea of enforcing Relational Integrity in the database
engine is to *not* allow "regular users" to bypass data integrity
checks.

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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