From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
To: Rajesh Kumar Mallah. <mallah@trade-india.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Cascading deletions does not seem to work inside PL/PGSQL
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 10:09:02 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <20020717100747.Y60505-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200207171242.25885.mallah@trade-india.com>
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Rajesh Kumar Mallah. wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 July 2002 21:41, you wrote:
> > 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).
>
> Hi thanks for the reply,
>
> Is it a bug? or is it expected ,
Well, we're not 100% sure it's correct, but it's the expected behavior
unless someone can point to something in SQL99 to make us change it. :)
> what if i do not want to fire sperate delete SQLs for the slave
> tables ?
I'm not sure what you mean by this.
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