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Re: Dynamic constraint names in ALTER TABLE

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On Monday, September 19, 2011 5:10:45 pm patrick keshishian wrote:
> Hi,
> 

> 
> 
> Is there any way the .sql scripts could make use of this query to get
> the foreign key name from pg_constraint table, regardless of PG
> version (7.4.x or 9.x)?

Use the information schema?  As example:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/infoschema-table-constraints.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/infoschema-table-constraints.html

> 
> foo=# SELECT conname FROM pg_constraint JOIN pg_class ON
> (conrelid=pg_class.oid) WHERE pg_class.relname='sales' AND conkey[1] =
> 1 AND contype='f';
> 
> In PostgreSQL 7.4.17:
>  conname
> ---------
>  $1
> (1 row)
> 
> 
> In PostgreSQL 9.0.3:
>       conname
> -------------------
>  sales_seller_fkey
> (1 row)
> 
> 
> Thanks for reading,
> --patrick

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