deletion and many-to-one - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Jennifer Vargas
Subject deletion and many-to-one
Date
Msg-id 3F3564DB.2010203@sneakemail.com
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Responses Re: deletion and many-to-one
List pgsql-novice
If you have a many-to-one relationship, such as a contact list where
several people
share an address, you may want to delete the child record once the last
reference to
it is gone. I don't see how to implement a reference-counting scheme in
a database.
What's the right way to accomplish this?


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