Re: FK relationships

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 01:01:17PM -0800, sarlav kumar wrote:

> update pg_constraint set conname='customer_facts_uid_fkey'
> where confrelid='customer'::regclass and conrelid='customer_facts'::regclass;

Note that if a table has multiple constraints then this update will
try to rename all of them to the same name.

> Is this going to cause any trouble in future? 

I don't know about this case, but fiddling with the system tables
can cause problems due to subtle relationships you're not aware of,
and it can have catastrophic consequences if you make a mistake.
Avoid it if possible.

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Michael Fuhr
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