Re: How to add "on delete cascade" constraints - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Richard Broersma
Subject Re: How to add "on delete cascade" constraints
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In response to Re: How to add "on delete cascade" constraints  (Alexander Farber <alexander.farber@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: How to add "on delete cascade" constraints  (Alexander Farber <alexander.farber@gmail.com>)
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Alexander Farber
<alexander.farber@gmail.com> wrote:
> So it's not a problem to drop and recreate the FOREIGN KEYs?
>
> And can I use START TRANSACTION while doing it?

You could, but you don't need to since you can do all of this is one statement:

ALTER TABLE public.pref_scores
DROP CONSTRAINT pref_scores_gid_fkey,
ADD CONSTRAINT pref_scores_gid_fkey
    FOREIGN KEY (gid)
    REFERENCES pref_games(gid)
    ON DELETE CASCADE;


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Richard Broersma Jr.

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