Re: Alter table to "on update cascade"

From: Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer(at)spamfence(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Alter table to "on update cascade"
Date: 2010-11-17 17:49:32
Message-ID: 20101117174932.GA4779@tux
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Richard Broersma <richard(dot)broersma(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 8:43 AM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
>
> > You can do it like this:
> >
> > BEGIN;
> > ALTER TABLE foo DROP CONSTRAINT your_constraint;
> > ALTER TABLE foo ADD FOREIGN KEY ...;
> > COMMIT;
>
> The nice thing about the ALTER TABLE statement is that you can do it
> in one command:
>
>
> ALTER TABLE foo
> DROP CONSTRAINT your_constraint,
> ADD CONSTRAINT your_constraint FOREIGN KEY ...
> ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE RESTRICT;

yeah, cool ;-)

Andreas
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