Re: How does this FK constraint error happen? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter J. Holzer
Subject Re: How does this FK constraint error happen?
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Msg-id 20240715143518.3v5xdfuj27ryzuzh@hjp.at
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In response to How does this FK constraint error happen?  (Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: How does this FK constraint error happen?
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On 2024-07-15 10:04:39 -0400, Ron Johnson wrote:
> The job does DELETE FROM rel_group_user; (no WHERE clause!!) then does DELETE
> FROM public.access_user; (also no WHERE clause), but the public.access_user
>  statement fails on FK constraint error on rel_group_user (which was just
> recently emptied).
>
> Each statement is in a different transaction, since they are executed via
> separate psql statements.  Thus, no apparent MVCC visibility weirdness.
>
> My first thought, of course, was that there are two rel_group_user tables. 
> Alas, no, there's just one.  See below for grep statement.
>
> Excerpts from the cron job log file:
> [snip]
> 2024-07-15 02:40:04 Deleting from FISPTAPPGS401DA/TAPd.rel_group_user
> DELETE FROM rel_group_user;
> DELETE 42747
> [snip]
> 2024-07-15 02:41:15 Deleting from FISPTAPPGS401DA/TAPd.public.access_user
> DELETE FROM public.access_user;
> ERROR:  update or delete on table "access_user" violates foreign key constraint
> "fk_rel_group_user_1" on table "rel_group_user"
> DETAIL:  Key (user_id)=(1210) is still referenced from table "rel_group_user".
> ERROR: deleting FISPTAPPGS401DA/TAPd.public.access_user
> [snip]

Is it possible that some other process created an entry in
rel_group_user between these two queries?

        hp

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