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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: foreign key on delete cascade order?
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In response to foreign key on delete cascade order?  (George Woodring <george.woodring@iglass.net>)
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George Woodring <george.woodring@iglass.net> writes:
> When using FOREIGN KEY ON DELETE CASCADE, is there an order the entries are
> being deleted?

No, there's no particular attempt to order the deletions.  Each cascaded
delete ought to be removing a disjoint set of rows in the referencing
table, so I'm not quite sure why order should matter.

            regards, tom lane

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