Re: How to REMOVE an "on delete cascade"? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Richard Broersma
Subject Re: How to REMOVE an "on delete cascade"?
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Msg-id CABvLTWHdT0tTygV0-O_ZgLRRAGZAg0W4zvghfF2PshAzvkAaGg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: How to REMOVE an "on delete cascade"?  (Albe Laurenz <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>)
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You can do all that in a single sql command.

ALTER TABLE b DROP CONSTRAINT b_a_id_fkey, ADD CONSTRAINT b_a_id FOREIGN KEY (a_id) REFERENCES a(a_id);



On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 5:55 AM, Albe Laurenz <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at> wrote:
Phoenix Kiula wrote:
> Hi. Hard to find this command in the documentation - how should I alter a table to REMOVE the "on
> delete cascade" constraint from a table? Thanks.

Unless you want to mess with the catalogs directly, I believe that
you have to create a new constraint and delete the old one, like:

      Table "laurenz.b"
 Column |  Type   | Modifiers
--------+---------+-----------
 b_id   | integer | not null
 a_id   | integer | not null
Indexes:
    "b_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (b_id)
    "b_a_id_ind" btree (a_id)
Foreign-key constraints:
    "b_a_id_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (a_id) REFERENCES a(a_id) ON DELETE CASCADE


ALTER TABLE b ADD CONSTRAINT scratch FOREIGN KEY (a_id) REFERENCES a(a_id);

ALTER TABLE b DROP CONSTRAINT b_a_id_fkey;

ALTER TABLE b RENAME CONSTRAINT scratch TO b_a_id_fkey;

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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