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How can I drop Foreign keys in general. I mean, if I have many foreign key constraints in a table. like

MonthlyEvaluatedBudgetTable Contraints:

• budgetid_pk (Primary Key)
• branchid_fk (Foreign Key)
• accountid_fk (Foreign Key)
• dept_fk (Foreign Key)

Is there a way in postgres to drop all foreign keys in general and not specifically in an existing table? Im using this line of code to drop a foreign key in an existing table.

    ALTER TABLE "public"."monthlyevaluatedbudgettable"
    DROP CONSTRAINT "accountid_fk";

But I want to drop It without specifically inputing accountid_fk,branchid_fk,dept_fk. Is there a way on it? thanks in advance.

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Loop it in DO statement, like:

b=# create table a (a int primary key, b int unique);
CREATE TABLE
b=# create table b (a int references a(a), b int references a(b));
CREATE TABLE
b=# do
$$
declare r record;
begin
for r in (select constraint_name from information_schema.table_constraints where table_schema = 'public' and table_name='b') loop
  raise info '%','dropping '||r.constraint_name;
  execute CONCAT('ALTER TABLE "public"."b" DROP CONSTRAINT '||r.constraint_name);
end loop;
end;
$$
;
INFO:  dropping b_a_fkey
INFO:  dropping b_b_fkey
DO