Re: Can't get rid of constraint - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: Can't get rid of constraint
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Msg-id 20020228132352.F21767-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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In response to Can't get rid of constraint  (Matthew Price <pricem@juno.com>)
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On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Matthew Price wrote:

> Howdy,
> I had a table in my database that reference another like:
>
> create table a (1 int, 2 int);
> create table b (1 int references a(1));
>
> recently i had to do a:
> drop table b;
>
> now i can't:
> delete from a where 1='5';
>
> because i get:
> ERROR:  Relation 'b' does not exist
>
> How do I get rid of this zombie constraint?

There are two triggers on a that do the constraint, if you
drop the triggers with drop trigger (you'll need to double
quote the names) you should be fine.



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