Re: postgres cascade weird behaviour

From: Adrian Klaver <aklaver(at)comcast(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Irwan Hendra <overtaker(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: postgres cascade weird behaviour
Date: 2009-04-17 13:00:33
Message-ID: 200904170600.33672.aklaver@comcast.net
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On Thursday 16 April 2009 6:50:46 pm Irwan Hendra wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have table A with pk that is being referenced by 5 other tables as
> foreign key
> I have put all those tables reference to be ON DELETE CASCADE
> However for some reason when I tried to delete one of the row in table A,
> out of 5 tables, 1 of them didn't actually get deleted
> but the transaction is completed successfully
> so I ended up with a table that has a foreign key referenced to a row that
> doesn't exist anymore in table A
>
> postgres is not reporting any error message, so I have no idea how to
> supply more information to this problem
>
> any idea?
>
> Thanks

Turn up the logging in postgresql.conf

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Adrian Klaver
aklaver(at)comcast(dot)net

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