On Nov 20, 2014, at 6:00 PM, Melvin Davidson wrote: > Try the following queries. It will give you two .sql files (create_fkeys.sql & drop_fkeys.sql). Thanks! I tried a variation of that to create DEFERRABLE constraints, and that was a mess. It appears all the checks ran at the end of the transaction individually – the process consumed 100% cpu overnight and was stuck on the 'commit' after 16 hours.. So I crossed my fingers and tried your code like this: BEGIN; DROP CONSTRAINT ..... x24; DELETE; ADD CONSTRAINT ..... x24; COMMIT; And that took just over 24 seconds. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general