Re: [GENERAL] Cascading Updates

I'm replying to my own note because I figured it
out. refint.c's check_foreign_key() was saving
the plan. As a result, it appeared that a plan
already existed for performing the cascading update,
but, of course, it was the wrong plan. Please
ignore my ramblings....

Marcus Mascari (mascarim(at)yahoo(dot)com)

---Marcus Mascari <mascarim(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
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> Well,
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> I attempted to modify refint.c myself to support
> cascading updates, but I'm seeing a weird affect.
> The cascing update works, except only on the first
> execution of the update. Each additional update
> doesn't cause any change to the related tables.
> If, however, I close the client, say, psql, and
> then perform another update, the trigger fires and
> the cascading update is performed.
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> All I changed in the code was to perform an update
> with the new key values when the type was a 'c',
> cascade, for UPDATE triggers, instead of setting
> those values to NULL.
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> Any hints?
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> Marcus Mascari (mascarim(at)yahoo(dot)com)
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