Don Baccus wrote:
>
> At 10:43 AM 6/8/00 -0400, Mike Mascari wrote:
...
> > And the Oracle docs state that DML triggers aren't fired
> >when a TRUNCATE is issued, so I didn't think there would be
> >issues there. Could you check?
>
> It refuses to do the TRUNCATE, whether or not there's a
> "ON DELETE CASCADE" modifier to the references.
>
> That seems reasonable - it allows one to still say "truncate's
> really fast because it doesn't scan the rows in the table",
> and refuses to break RI constraints.
>
> All that needs doing is to check for the existence of
> at least one RI trigger on the table that's being truncated,
> and saying "no way, jose" if we want to mimic Oracle in
> this regard.
>
> TODO item?
Sounds like it to me. Rats...
Mike Mascari
>
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