From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jeff Frost <jeff@frostconsultingllc.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: delete and select with IN clause issues
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:50:00 -0500
Message-ID: <24512.1162525800@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Jeff Frost <jeff@frostconsultingllc.com> writes:
> delete from visit where id not in (select distinct visit_id from page_view);
> This yields the following error:
> ERROR: update or delete on "visit" violates foreign key constraint
> "fk34afd255fbacabec" on "page_view"
> DETAIL: Key (id)=(38635629) is still referenced from table "page_view".
This seems pretty darn weird. I am wondering about corrupt indexes ---
can you find the indicated key in either table if you set
enable_indexscan and enable_bitmapscan to 0?
Also, this is a long shot, but does visit by any chance have a cascading
deletion self-reference?
regards, tom lane
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