Re: Adding "on delete cascade" after table creation ?

From: "Peter Alberer" <h9351252(at)obelix(dot)wu-wien(dot)ac(dot)at>
To: "'Stephan Szabo'" <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Adding "on delete cascade" after table creation ?
Date: 2002-09-26 10:15:00
Message-ID: 002101c26545$92c0c190$5be0d089@ekelhardt
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From looking at the techdocs document i got the impression that I simply
need to change the value of "tgfoid" in pg_trigger from "1654"
(RI_FKey_noaction_del) to "1646" (RI_FKey_cascade_del). Is this correct?

>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>Von: Stephan Szabo [mailto:sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com]
>Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. September 2002 17:06
>An: Peter Alberer
>Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
>Betreff: Re: [GENERAL] Adding "on delete cascade" after table creation
?
>
>
>On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Peter Alberer wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> i have a table that SHOULD look like this:
>>
>> create table lr_object_usage (
>> lr_object_usage_id integer
>> constraint
>> lr_object_usage_lr_object_usage_id_pk
>> primary key,
>> lr_object_id integer
>> constraint
lr_object_usage_lr_object_id_fk
>> references lr_objects(lr_object_id)
>> on delete cascade,
>> access_time timestamp,
>> user_id integer
>> constraint lr_object_usage_user_id_fk
>> references users(user_id),
>> status varchar(11),
>> context integer
>> constraint lr_object_usage_context_fk
>> references
>> lr_object_usage(lr_object_usage_id)
>> ___ON DELETE CASCADE___
>> );
>>
>> unfortunately i think that the table was created without the delete
>> cascade in the last line (for the constraint
>> lr_object_usage_context_fk). Is it somehow possible to add the delete
>> cascade without recreating the table?
>
>You'll probably have to manually remove the triggers for the foreign
>key constraint (see techdocs.postgresql.org's fk primers for info) and
>then use alter table add constraint.
>

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