Re: constraint naming

Guy Hammond wrote:
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> O Wise and Powerful Oracle:
>
> Is there a way to change thy system-generated names for foreign key
> constraints to something sensible without invoking Deep Magic?
>
> g
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Foreign key you say? I think that for them updating sys.con$ should be relatively safe, I don't believe that there is any other place (contrarily to PK and UQ constraints) where the name appears and is used. If I where you I would export with ROWS=N, reimport into a test database, fiddle in the dictionary, export the result with ROWS=N again, check with imp SHOW=Y that it looks like what you want, drop all FKs on the prod database, and reimport on the prod with IGNORE=Y. Should keep the risk of screwing up something to a minimum.

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  Stephane Faroult
  Oriole Corporation
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