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Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:41:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: chester c young <chestercyoung@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: delete on cascade
To: Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it>
Cc: sql pgsql <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
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--- Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I guess this is an already asked question, but I didn't found an
> answer, so 
> apologize me. Imagine I've got two tables:
> skill(id,description)		// primary key => id
> family(id,description)	// primary key => id
> and I want to associate skills to families:
> ass_sf(id_skill,id_family)	// appropriate foreign keys
> 
> Tables are already created and the database is running. Now I'd like
> to 
> implement a delete cascade, thus when I delete a skill also its
> association 
> with the family must be deleted. I gues I should have declared the
> skill 
> table as follows:
> CREATE TABLE skill
> (
> 	id varchar(20) on delete cascade,
> 	description varchar(50),
> 	primary key(id)
> );
> 
> right? The problem is: how can I alter the table to add the column
> constraint 
> now, without redeclaring the table?
> Thanks very much for helping me.
> Luca
  
drop the constraint and re-declare it.  (you can see the constraint
name by \dt skill from psql.)


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