On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:08:53AM -0500, David Johnston wrote: > I may be off-track here but triggers do not enforce referential integrity - > constraints do. If you need to disable triggers you can do so via the ALTER > TABLE command. Unless something very big changed when I wasn't looking, the constraints are actually implemented as triggers under the hood. But you're right that it'd be cleaner to drop the constraints and re-add them than to fool with system triggers. > The reason I think pg_restore works for you is because when a table is built > using pg_restore all the data is loaded into all tables BEFORE any > constraints are created. I believe that if you did a data-only dump from > pg_dump you would have the same integrity problems. Yes. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general