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From: chester c young <chestercyoung@yahoo.com>
To: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>
Cc: sql pgsql <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: apparent RI bug
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 13:16:42 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <811324.18014.qm@web54305.mail.re2.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080403113003.Q17782@megazone.bigpanda.com>

--- Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com> wrote:

> Is it possible you ever had a before delete trigger that just did a
> return
> NULL rather than raising an exception? IIRC, explicitly telling the
> system to ignore the delete will work on the referential actions.

yes, it is possible, for example, a function without a body or without
a "return old".

are you saying this would override the RI constraint?  if so, is this
by design?


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