Re: On delete cascade!

From: "Steve Boyle \(Roselink\)" <boylesa(at)roselink(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: "Roberto Mello" <rmello(at)cc(dot)usu(dot)edu>, "Paulo J(dot) Matos" <pocm(at)rnl(dot)ist(dot)utl(dot)pt>
Cc: <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: On delete cascade!
Date: 2002-01-15 11:32:50
Message-ID: 009901c19db8$5d781a60$c55869d5@dualtower
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Is the , after socio the problem here?

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Roberto Mello" <rmello(at)cc(dot)usu(dot)edu>
To: "Paulo J. Matos" <pocm(at)rnl(dot)ist(dot)utl(dot)pt>
Cc: <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 6:29 AM
Subject: Re: [SQL] On delete cascade!

> On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 08:31:36PM +0000, Paulo J. Matos wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > On weak entities I've used ON DELETE CASCADE as mentioned in
> > "Databases Management Systems" by Raghu Ramakrishnan. But I get:
> > psql:tables.sql:43: ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "ON"
> >
> > on tables like the following:
> >
> > CREATE TABLE socio_ilumindado (
> > cognome varchar,
> > id integer,
> > nome varchar,
> > alcunha varchar,
> > data_filiacao date,
> > PRIMARY KEY(id),
> > FOREIGN KEY(id, nome, alcunha, data_filiacao) REFERENCES socio,
> > ON DELETE CASCADE);
>
> Ola Paulo,
>
> You need to take a look at the PostgreSQL documentation as well. Just
> reading your college databases book won't cut it most of the time.
>
> PostgreSQL has excellent documentation, especially the reference manual.
> Take a look at it. So far both of your questions could have been answered
> by taking a quick glance at the docs.
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/
>
> -Roberto
>
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