From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
To: Paulo J. Matos <pocm@rnl.ist.utl.pt>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: On delete cascade!
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:53:10 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <20020114155126.J27862-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zo3gfzdj.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
On 14 Jan 2002, Paulo J. Matos wrote:
> On weak entities I've used ON DELETE CASCADE as mentioned in
> "Databases Management Systems" by Raghu Ramakrishnan. But I get:
> psql:tables.sql:43: ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "ON"
>
> on tables like the following:
>
> CREATE TABLE socio_ilumindado (
> cognome varchar,
> id integer,
> nome varchar,
> alcunha varchar,
> data_filiacao date,
> PRIMARY KEY(id),
> FOREIGN KEY(id, nome, alcunha, data_filiacao) REFERENCES socio,
> ON DELETE CASCADE);
>
>
> How can I change this to be compatible with postgresql?
We don't want the comma between socio and the ON DELETE CASCADE (which as
far as I can see isn't allowed in the SQL92 spec either, but I may be
missing it).
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