Re: Modifying an existing constraint? - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: Modifying an existing constraint?
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Msg-id 20040604161353.O34049@megazone.bigpanda.com
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In response to Modifying an existing constraint?  (Lynna Landstreet <lynna@gallery44.org>)
Responses Re: ON DELETE CASCADE (was: Modifying an existing
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On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Lynna Landstreet wrote:

> Does anyone know if it's possible to modify an existing table constraint -
> for example, to add "ON DELETE CASCADE" to an existing foreign key
> constraint? Or would I have to recreate the table to add that?

You can drop the constraint and add it again with the additional clause
using ALTER TABLE. One warning is that it will recheck the constraint in
this case which may make the ALTER slow if there's alot of data.


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