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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
To: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Automatic deletion of orphaned rows
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 07:37:17 -0700
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On Wednesday, January 22, 2025, Ron Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> I therefore propose a feature, to be able to specify in a table schema
>> that a row should be deleted if orphaned.
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> For one thing, rows *can't* be orphaned if there's a foreign key
> reference.
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The description was correct even though using probably imprecise
terminology. The basic goal is to delete childless parents.
David J.
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