Re: [SQL] INFORMATION_SCHEMA and foreign keys

2004-09-05 Thread Tom Lane
Stephan Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Troels Arvin wrote: >> Is my only way forward to drop using the INFORMATION_SCHEMA and work with >> the pg_catalog if I want to determine which columns are being referred to >> in a (set of) foreign key column(s)? > Possibly, yes. Yo

Re: [SQL] INFORMATION_SCHEMA and foreign keys

2004-09-05 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Troels Arvin wrote: > The query returns double the numer of rows, compared to what I wanted. The > problem seems to stem from PostgreSQL's naming of constraints without > explicit name: They seem to be named $1, $2, etc, and the default names > are reused. [...] > Note, again,

[SQL] INFORMATION_SCHEMA and foreign keys

2004-09-05 Thread Troels Arvin
Hello, For a table with a foreign key, I need to find out which columns are being referred to in the foreing key. Example setup: Create two ("master") tables, and two ("slave") tables which refer to a master table: CREATE TABLE MASTER_A ( fullname VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL, birthday TIMESTAMP NOT