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From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: ON DELETE CASCADE question
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 13:14:39 -0400
Message-ID: <3D0A247F.EADC659D@Yahoo.com> (raw)
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> 
> Wei,
> 
> > Does ON DELETE CASCADE attribute you specify in CREATE TABLE
> > statement
> > actually create triggers for every foreign key it refers to?
> >
> 
> Yes.  Two triggers for each key, I think.

    Three, one for INSERT OR UPDATE on the FK table, one
    for UPDATE on the PK table and one for DELETE on PK.


Jan

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