Re: Fwd: Re: deleting a child table - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Culley Harrelson
Subject Re: Fwd: Re: deleting a child table
Date
Msg-id 5.1.0.14.2.20011103054801.00a2c8a0@pop.easystreet.com
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So in pg_trigger all I have is a mess of RI contraints.  How can I figure
out what is the offending trigger?

culley


>On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Culley Harrelson wrote:
>
> > I have dropped the child table in a one to many relationship. Now when
> > I try to update the parent table I get a message that the child table
> > doesn't exist.  Any idea what I missed?
>
>Is it possible you have a dangling foreign key reference?  I believe
>this could be caused if you'd dumped with a 7.0 or 7.1.(up to 2 I think)
>pg_dump, because it didn't restore the portion of the trigger which
>let it know to be dropped when the other table was dropped.
>If so, you'll probably need to look at pg_trigger and find the two
>triggers associated with the broken constraint and do a
>drop trigger "<trigger name>"; for them.


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