On 6/20/06 5:07 AM, "Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > My suggestion was to create the fk _before_ loading the data, and disable it > similarly to what "--disable-triggers" doest. It turned out, however, that a > FK always depends on a unique index (be it a primary key, or not), which > prevents > my plan from working :-( That was a great idea - too bad it didn't pan out. I don't suppose there's any (reasonable) way to directly insert into the system tables to create the constraint? I could knock almost 2 days off of the almost 4 days to reload if I could solve this. Wes