Re: Removing Rows in Foreign Keys - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Michael Fuhr
Subject Re: Removing Rows in Foreign Keys
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Msg-id 20050404074750.GB14264@winnie.fuhr.org
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In response to Removing Rows in Foreign Keys  (brew@theMode.com)
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On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 02:56:56AM -0400, brew@theMode.com wrote:
>
> Is there a SQL command that removes both a row in a table and the rows in
> other tables that reference it or do I have to do it manually?

If you define the foreign key constraints as ON DELETE CASCADE,
then referencing rows will be automatically deleted when you DELETE
the referenced row.

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Michael Fuhr
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