It works the other way around,
If you delete from images, then the corresponding entry from
accomm_images will be deleted.
DAve
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 10:33, Bhushan Bhangale wrote:
> Well I did google and got that delete cascade DDL for postgres. I tried it
> using odbc and jdbc but didn't worked.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Cramer [mailto:pg@fastcrypt.com]
> Sent: 16 February 2004 15:03
> To: Bhushan Bhangale
> Cc: pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [JDBC] cascade delete
>
>
> Does this work in psql? The driver wouldn't do anything to interfere
> with this.
>
> Dave
> On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 09:49, Bhushan Bhangale wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have following 2 tables in postgres DB. I created a cascade delete
> > constraint on image_id column of accomm_images which is a foreign key from
> > image tbale.
> >
> > When I execute -> delete from accomm_images
> > It should delete all the child records of image table as well. But its not
> > happening.
> >
> > CREATE TABLE image(
> > id int4 NOT NULL,
> > url int4 NOT NULL
> > );
> >
> > CREATE TABLE accomm_images(
> > accomm_id int4 NOT NULL references accomm(id),
> > image_id int4 NOT NULL references image(id) on delete
> > cascade
> > );
> >
> >
> > Is there anything missing?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Bhushan
> >
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