Re: ON DELETE SET NULL clauses do error when more than two columns are referenced to one table - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Gregory Stark
Subject Re: ON DELETE SET NULL clauses do error when more than two columns are referenced to one table
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Msg-id 87y7gfshpr.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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In response to Re: ON DELETE SET NULL clauses do error when more than two columns are referenced to one table  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>)
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"Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki@enterprisedb.com> writes:

> I'm not sure what to do about this. We could change the order the
> triggers are fired to breadth-first. If all the setnull triggers were
> executed first, there would be no problem. But that seems like a pretty
> big change, and I'm afraid it might have other unintended consequences.

We could also check the queued triggers to see if there really is a trigger
which will be invalidated by the second update and therefore needs to be
rechecked (or even just change the tid of the existing queued check). I don't
know what it would take to make that efficient though.

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  Gregory Stark
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