From: Owen Jacobson <ojacobson@osl.com>
To: Bryce Nesbitt <bryce1@obviously.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Delete with join -- deleting related table entries?
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 09:32:27 -0800
Message-ID: <144D12D7DD4EC04F99241498BB4EEDCC20CC56@nelson.osl.com> (raw)
Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> When I delete a record from a certain table, I need to delete a
> (possibly) attached note as well. How can I do this with
> postgres? The
> tables are like this:
>
> reservation
> reservation_id
> stuff...
>
> isuse
> issue_id
> reservation_id
references reservation (reservation_id) -- ADD
> stuff..
>
> note
> issue_id
references isuse (issue_id) -- ADD (kept typo in example)
> text comments...
>
> A select that pulls out what I want to delete is:
>
> SELECT reservation_id,issue_id,note_id,eg_note.comments FROM
> eg_reservation
> LEFT JOIN eg_issue USING (reservation_id)
> LEFT JOIN eg_note USING (issue_id)
> WHERE reservation_id > condition;
>
> Can anyone help me turn this into a DELETE statement?
1. Add foreign key references between the tables to ensure that there are only notes and issues (isuses? :) for existing issues and reservations respectively. You can make those references 'ON DELETE CASCADE' so that a delete of the original reservation cascades down to related entries in the issue table, which in turn cascade down to the related entries in the note table.
2. Or...
BEGIN;
DELETE FROM note WHERE issue_id IN (SELECT issue_id FROM isuse
WHERE reservation_id = reservation_to_delete);
DELETE FROM isuse WHERE reservation_id = reservation_to_delete;
DELETE FROM reservations WHERE reservation_id = reservation_to_delete;
END;
with an appropriate value or expression substituted into reservation_to_delete. This would be the "hard way", but (as it's in a single transaction) will still protect other clients from seeing a partial delete.
Get yourself a good, non-MySQL-specific database book, which should explain how referential integrity is handled in databases.
-Owen
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