Обсуждение: Querying for related tables

Craig wrote:
> Hi
>
> How can I query for all the tables that are referenced by a particular
> table (i.e my table has 3 foreign keys. I need a query that will return
> the table names of the referenced tables)?

See the chapters on the "Information Schema" (which is an SQL standard)
and the "system catalogs" (which are PostgreSQL specific).

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   Richard Huxton
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On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:10:44PM +0000, Richard Huxton wrote:
> Craig wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >How can I query for all the tables that are referenced by a particular
> >table (i.e my table has 3 foreign keys. I need a query that will return
> >the table names of the referenced tables)?
>
> See the chapters on the "Information Schema" (which is an SQL standard)
> and the "system catalogs" (which are PostgreSQL specific).

See also http://pgfoundry.org/projects/newsysviews
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