Re: DROP CONSTRAINT... CASCADE seems to be broken. Bug?

Le 01/01/2011 18:37, Eric Ongerth a écrit :
> Hello, this is my first post about pgAdmin III. I searched the archives
> here but the keywords DROP, CONSTRAINT, CASCADE are all so common that I was
> unable to determine whether this is a known bug. Also it does not appear on
> the known-issues list that I could see.
>
>
> - Platform I'm running on: Windows 7 32-bit
> - Language: English
> - Distribution you used (source tarball, or binary): Windows 7 32-bit
> binary
> - Version I'm using: 1.12.0
>
> The issue: there's no crash. But right-clicking any constraint and choosing
> Drop Cascaded appears to be incorrectly implemented. I get an error window
> that reports that there are dependencies and suggesting that I need to use
> DROP...CASCADE instead. The report reads exactly as if I had used Drop.
> But I used Drop Cascaded!
>
> I can open the SQL window and write my own command:
> ALTER TABLE tablename DROP CONSTRAINT constraint_name CASCADE;
>
> This of course works perfectly. So maybe there is just a simple error
> somewhere in pgAdmin III's implementation of the DROP...CASCADE action via
> the right-click context menu on constraints?
>

You're right. We didn't take care of the cascading option for
constraints. This is now fixed.

Thank you for your report.

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