Re: Deferrable FK not behaving as expected. - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ron
Subject Re: Deferrable FK not behaving as expected.
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Msg-id 3e71cfa9-77d5-06c0-f435-9baffc55ea94@gmail.com
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In response to Re: Deferrable FK not behaving as expected.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 12/7/20 3:40 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> writes:
>> That works *sometimes*, but not when we *really* want it to work.
>> test=# begin transaction;
>> BEGIN
>> test=# ALTER TABLE sales_header DETACH PARTITION sales_header_202001;
>> ERROR:  removing partition "sales_header_202001" violates foreign key
>> constraint "sales_detail_cust_id_order_ts_fkey"
> That I think you're gonna have to live with.  DETACH PARTITION isn't
> something we can defer to end of transaction.

Very sad, since it would simplify the archiving of the 24x365 system we're 
porting from Oracle to RDS Postgresql.

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