That sounds like a plan - will give it a go. Thanks!
simon
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 3:37 AM
To: Simon Kinsella
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] Possible to emulate pre-8.2 behaviour of SET CONSTRAINTS?
"Simon Kinsella" <simon@bluefiresystems.co.uk> writes:
> My system currently runs on PostgreSQL 8.1 and makes use of the old
> behaviour of SET CONSTRAINTS, namely that the command is applied to
> all constraints that match the specified name.
Unfortunately that was pretty far away from what the SQL spec says :-(
> This makes it very easy to write
> a general-case function that can change the DEFERRED mode on a given
> constraint that is present in several similar schemas (sounds odd
> maybe but it works very well in my case!).
I think you could do it fairly easily still, eg
for rec in select nspname from pg_namespace n join pg_constraint c
on n.oid = c.connamespace where conname = $1 loop execute 'set constraints ' || quote_ident(rec.nspname) ||
'.'||
quote_ident($1) || ' immediate'; end loop;
Exceedingly untested, but something close to this seems like it'd solve your
problem.
regards, tom lane