I was going to guess that it was something related to the
foreign key, but I can't imagine why that would be affected
by a delete on the referencing table (there shouldn't be
a trigger there anyway).
Can you send full schema with constraints for the tables?
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, chris G�nther wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have the problem that I can't delete datasets out of my tables. It's like that:
> I have a table:
> tblshop
> ID_Shop oid with sequence
> -------
> Sh_Name
> ID_Country
> ...
>
> there is an index on ID_Country
>
>
> I have a second table:
> tblcountry
> ID_Country oid with sequence
> ----------
> C_Name
> ...
>
> I have a reference between these two tables pointing from tblshop.ID_Country to
> tblcountry.ID_Country
>
> When I try to delete a row from tblshop I get the error that postgres can't find
> the attribute id_shop. My SQL-command looks like follows:
>
> DELETE FROM tblshop WHERE tblshop."ID_Shop" = 12
>
> the same happens when I try to do:
>
> DELETE FROM tblshop WHERE tblshop."ID_Country" = 3
>
> I also tried this query without quotes, with simple quotes (') without the leading
> tablename and so on, but I always get the error-message:
>
> ERROR: Attribute 'id_shop' not found
>
> Please, can anyone help me out? It is really anoying when you can't delete datasets
> especially because my application is already online (I use postgres with PHP) and
> there are 20 tables with alltogether 120 MB of data in it
