Re: PostgreSQL - Ordering Table based of Foreign Key - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: PostgreSQL - Ordering Table based of Foreign Key
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Msg-id 85d5c6d9-f3df-a3f1-7c6a-c5f6f97b538a@aklaver.com
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL - Ordering Table based of Foreign Key  (FOUTE K. Jaurès <jauresfoute@gmail.com>)
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On 10/3/21 9:24 AM, FOUTE K. Jaurès wrote:

Please don't top post, inline/bottom posting is the preferred style on 
this list.

> I need to delete data from about 100 table in the production system for 
> a specific client without stopping application.

Honestly that is not that much more informative.

So:

1) Do the FK's have "ON DELETE CASCADE" already?

2) Does a single FK cascade through all 100 tables or are there groups 
of parent/child tables and associated FK's

3) Show an example DELETE query and tables affected.

> 
> On Sun, 3 Oct 2021, 17:19 Adrian Klaver, <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com 
> <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 10/3/21 7:40 AM, FOUTE K. Jaurès wrote:
>      > Thanks for your input but I want to make a delete with where clause
> 
>     Then Thomas Kellerer's suggestion of having "ON DELETE CASCADE" on the
>     FK would seem to be what you need. If not then you will need to provide
>     more information about what you are trying to achieve?
> 
> 
>     -- 
>     Adrian Klaver
>     adrian.klaver@aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
> 


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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com



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