-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/05/07 10:50, Kynn Jones wrote: > Hi, everyone. > > Is there a standard way to disable a table foreign-key constraint temporarily? > > I thought that this would be a fairly common thing to want to do, but > I only found this snippet online: > > -- to disable > UPDATE pg_class SET reltriggers=0 WHERE relname = 'your_table'; > > -- to re-enable > UPDATE pg_class SET reltriggers = count( * ) > FROM pg_trigger WHERE pg_class.oid=tgrelid AND relname = 'your_table'; > > and it appears that one needs to be root to execute these statements. > > Is there any other way for non-root users? The whole idea of enforcing Relational Integrity in the database engine is to *not* allow "regular users" to bypass data integrity checks. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFHL1PLS9HxQb37XmcRAm7zAKDbdYSymz3zIyKmfdU5wPjtpVTAlwCYoEA/ DI1Z2Fbgo62k6C2P8gsCQQ== =Np96 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly