From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Svenn Helge Grindhaug <svenn@ii.uib.no>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Rule problem
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:36:00 -0400
Message-ID: <19317.1023978960@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.44.0206131208300.15638-100000@buksbom.ii.uib.no>
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Svenn Helge Grindhaug <svenn@ii.uib.no> writes:
> create rule a_delete as
> on delete to a do
> delete from b where id1 = old.id1;
> create rule c_delete as
> on delete to c do
> delete from a where id1 = (select id1 from b where id2 = old.id2);
The a_delete rule is run before the actual "DELETE FROM a" command,
so by the time the latter runs, the b row is gone, and no match exists.
I'd be inclined to think about doing this with foreign keys (set up
for ON DELETE CASCADE) instead of handmade rules. If you really want
to do it by hand, triggers will probably work better than rules.
regards, tom lane
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