Merlin Moncure-2 wrote > > > I didn't quite parse that. Using recursive queries, it should be > able to pretty easily query out, given a table name, all tables that > link to that table and the columns of the keys in the constraints > (and, if necessary, the links from other tables to those tables). > > If I was looking for specific *records*, not tables and columns, I > would probably be generating a query from the above. (If I'm > understanding you properly that is). > i'm trying to get all the values linked to a specific record, ideally with table/column names. so my output (given the structure i showed above) would be more like: tblimage image_id image_id-value tblimage image_info image_info-value tblstack stack_info_1 stack_info-value tblstack stack_info_2 stack_info-value i didn't know about recursive queries; guess i'll start by looking that up. thanks, jenn i didn't know about recursive queries; i'll look that up. -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/query-for-all-values-linked-to-a-field-tp5072691p5072765.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general