On Di, 2014-02-11 at 18:58 -0200, Claudio Freire wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Eildert Groeneveld
> <eildert.groeneveld@fli.bund.de> wrote:
> > Dear All
> >
> > this probably not the best list to post this question:
> >
> > I use cascading deletes but would like to first inform the user what she
> > is about to do.
> > Something like : explain delete from PANEL where panel_id=21;
> > -- you are about to delete 32144 records in tables abc aaa wewew
> >
> > This is clearly something that can be programmed but as all information
> > is available in the database schema, there should be a generalized
> > procedure available.
>
> Granted, this is somewhat ugly, but you could issue the delete, note
> down the rowcount, and rollback.
Thanks Claudio, thats an option and a fallback if we do not come up with
a better version. I am sure that there is something around.
>
>
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