Hello all,
Some of my tables were badly designed and have 2 indexes, like the following example (lots of tables have same problem):
<<<
postgres=# \d test1
Table "public.test1"
Column | Type | Modifiers
--------+---------+-----------
t1 | integer | not null
Indexes:
"test1_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (t1)
"test1_t1_key" UNIQUE CONSTRAINT, btree (t1)
Referenced by:
TABLE "test2" CONSTRAINT "test2_t1_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (t1) REFERENCES test1(t1)
postgres=# \d test2
Table "public.test2"
Column | Type | Modifiers
--------+---------+-----------
t2 | integer | not null
t1 | integer |
Indexes:
"test2_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (t2)
Foreign-key constraints:
"test2_t1_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (t1) REFERENCES test1(t1)
>>>
It is not possible to remove the "test1_t1_key" constraint because the "test2_t1_fkey" internally references it:
ERROR: cannot drop constraint test1_t1_key on table test1 because other objects depend on it
HINT: Use DROP ... CASCADE to drop the dependent objects too.