From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
To: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
Cc: Rudi Starcevic <rudi@oasis.net.au>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Break referential integrity.
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 15:06:34 -0400
Message-ID: <3F0C67BA.2050209@Yahoo.com> (raw)
References: <20030701211322.L66304-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
Stephan Szabo wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Rudi Starcevic wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I know that if you have a trigger and function then drop/replace the
>> function the trigger needs
>> to be drop/replaced too so that it can see the new function.
>>
>> Is it the same for Ref. Integ. on table's too ?
>>
>> If table B's foreign key references table A and you drop/replace table A
>> then the reference from table B to table A is broken and needs to be
>> recreated ?
>
> In recent versions, you should not be drop table A without specifying
> cascade which will drop the constraint for you (and thus you'll need to
> recreate it). In older versions, I'm not 100% sure what'd happen, but you
> probably should drop and recreate it for good measure.
Older versions spit out a NOTICE and dropped the constraint, so they
kinda defaulted to CASCADE.
Jan
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