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From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
To: "Paulo J. Matos" <pocm@rnl.ist.utl.pt>
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Subject: Re: On delete cascade!
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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).