Re: psql: show which tables contraints are for with a \d

Don't know if it could be considered my patch anymore (Tom did quite a
bit of work) but yes, this item has been applied.

On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 15:24, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> Rod, your patch is in CVS now, right?
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Rod Taylor wrote:
> > It should be noted that my patch in the queue displays the actual
> > foreign key definition and suppresses 'Constraint' Triggers.
> >
> > This is a touch better than the below with the side effect that if a
> > user issues a CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER manually it is mistakenly
> > hidden.
> >
> > Anyway, which one is applied is up to you guys.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 16:53, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> > >
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> > >
> > > This (inline) patch makes the display of trigggers a little less
> > > hideous when you have many foreign keys, which causese the
> > > creation of many RI_ConstraintTrigger_XXXXX triggers. If the
> > > trigger is actually a constraint, it will show table the
> > > constraint is for. Not much, but a little better than seeing
> > > row after row of auto-generated trigger names.
> > >
> > >
> > > Old way:
> > >
> > > greg=# \d alphabet
> > >    Table "public.alphabet"
> > >  Column |  Type   | Modifiers
> > > --------+---------+-----------
> > >  aa     | integer | not null
> > >  bb     | integer |
> > >  cc     | integer |
> > > Indexes: alphabet_pkey primary key btree (aa),
> > >          alphabet_bb_key unique btree (bb),
> > >          alphabet_cc_key unique btree (cc)
> > > Triggers: RI_ConstraintTrigger_16880,
> > >           RI_ConstraintTrigger_16881,
> > >           RI_ConstraintTrigger_16884,
> > >           RI_ConstraintTrigger_16885,
> > >           RI_ConstraintTrigger_16888,
> > >           my_little_trigger,
> > >           another_custom_trigger
> > >
> > > greg=# \d alphabet
> > >    Table "public.alphabet"
> > >  Column |  Type   | Modifiers
> > > --------+---------+-----------
> > >  aa     | integer | not null
> > >  bb     | integer |
> > >  cc     | integer |
> > > Indexes: alphabet_pkey primary key btree (aa),
> > >          alphabet_bb_key unique btree (bb),
> > >          alphabet_cc_key unique btree (cc)
> > > Triggers: RI_ConstraintTrigger_16880 (Constraint on public.foobar),
> > >           RI_ConstraintTrigger_16881 (Constraint on public.foobar),
> > >           RI_ConstraintTrigger_16884 (Constraint on public.mikey),
> > >           RI_ConstraintTrigger_16885 (Constraint on greg.watson),
> > >           RI_ConstraintTrigger_16888 (Constraint on greg.crick),
> > >           my_little_trigger,
> > >           another_custom_trigger
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Index: describe.c
> > > ===================================================================
> > > RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/bin/psql/describe.c,v
> > > retrieving revision 1.60
> > > diff -r1.60 describe.c
> > > 972c972,975
> > > <                     "SELECT t.tgname\n"
> > > ---
> > > >                     "SELECT t.tgname || \n"
> > > >                     "  COALESCE((SELECT ' (' || '%s ' || n.nspname || '.' || c.relname || ')'\n"
> > > >                     "  FROM pg_class c, pg_namespace n\n"
> > > >                     "  WHERE c.relnamespace = n.oid AND c.oid = t.tgconstrrelid), '')\n"
> > > 975c978
> > > <                     oid);
> > > ---
> > > >                     _("Constraint on"), oid);
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com
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