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From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
To: "Rajesh Kumar Mallah." <mallah@trade-india.com>
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Subject: Re: Cascading deletions does not seem to work inside PL/PGSQL
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On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Rajesh Kumar Mallah. wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> This problem has been troubling me for quite sometime and
> I would be very thankful for your help.
>
> I have included the complete commented script to recreate the problem in
> question.
>
> The problem is inside a plpgsql function i do not see the records in the slave tables
> getting deleted when i delete the corresponing referenced record from the master table.
>
> But things as expected  inside a Transaction at  the PSQL prompt.

It should get deleted, but it won't be deleted until the end of the
user's sql statement (ie, not until after the function has finished).