Hi,

I'm using the autodoc regression database available at

http://cvs.pgfoundry.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/autodoc/autodoc/regressdatabase.sql?rev=1.2&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

This has several schemas that have cross-schema foreign key constraints such as the following:

 autodoc=> \d product.product
                                       Table "product.product"
Column | Type | Modifiers
---------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------
product_id | integer | not null default nextval('product.product_product_id_seq'::regclass)
 product_code        | text    | not null
 product_description | text    |
Indexes:
    "product_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (product_id)
    "product_product_code_key" UNIQUE, btree (product_code)
Check constraints:
    "product_product_code_check" CHECK (product_code = upper(product_code))
Referenced by:
TABLE "store.inventory" CONSTRAINT "inventory_product_id_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (product_id) REFERENCES product.product(product_id) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE RESTRICT TABLE "warehouse.inventory" CONSTRAINT "inventory_product_id_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (product_id) REFERENCES product.product(product_id) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE RESTRICT

I'm using this to validate a tool I'm building and I get an error on the following query:

autodoc=> SELECT conname::regclass FROM pg_constraint
autodoc->       WHERE contype = 'u';
ERROR:  relation "product_product_code_key" does not exist

The 8.4 documentation says:

The regclass input converter handles the table lookup according to the schema path setting, and so it does the "right thing" automatically.

My search path is the default "$user", public and I'm only able to avoid the error if I set the search_path to cover all the schemas, e.g.,

autodoc=> set search_path to "$user", public, product, store, warehouse;
SET
autodoc=> SELECT conname::regclass FROM pg_constraint
      WHERE contype = 'u';
              conname
------------------------------------
 product_product_code_key
 store_store_code_key
 warehouse_warehouse_code_key
 warehouse_warehouse_supervisor_key
(4 rows)

I would've thought that the "right thing" would have involved prepending the schema to the constraint name, e.g., product.product_product_code_key as is done for the table names in the \d output. Is this a bug or does regclass only do the "right thing" for tables and not for constraints?

Joe

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