Tom Lane wrote:
lrotger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

I know I could dig this out of the manuals so don't be too hard on me, I'd like to know how to query the actual text of the expression of a constraint. I know the name of the constraint and of the table.


Something like this:

regression=# create table t1 (f1 int constraint c1 check (f1 > 0));
CREATE TABLE
regression=# select pg_get_constraintdef(c.oid)
regression-#   from pg_constraint c join pg_class t on c.conrelid = t.oid
regression-#   where t.relname = 't1' and c.conname = 'c1';
 pg_get_constraintdef
----------------------
 CHECK ((f1 > 0))
(1 row)

You can probably also get it from the information_schema.

                        regards, tom lane


I forgot to mention that my version is 7.2.1. I replaced the column names for the ones I see in my installation hoping it would work but the function, pg_get_conbstraintdef() doesn't exist.

I see that information_schema was introduced in 8.0 too.

Anyway I found out that \d table shows the table definition so it's solved.

Thanks a lot
L Rotger

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