Re: Cascading deletions does not seem to work inside PL/PGSQL functions.

Thanks for your reply. Stephan.

On Thursday 18 July 2002 12:01, you wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Rajesh Kumar Mallah. wrote:
> > > what if i do not want to fire sperate delete SQLs for the slave
> > >
> > > > tables ?
> >
> > Hi ,
> >
> > what is mean is that I a have many tables(x,y,z...) which reference the
> > master table (M).
> >
> > I want that the records from the tables (x,y,z ect) automatically get
> > deleted in the function when i delete the recored in the master (M). so
> > that i do not have to explicitly delete from each of the tables x,y,z,
> > etc.
> >
> > actually i want to reinsert the records in the table x,y,z as well as M
> > with some modification.
>
> So you want to do something like:
> delete from M
> ...
> Insert into M,x,y,...
>
> inside the function with the x,y, etc rows
> going away between those two?
>
> Hmm, yeah, that's a case that I don't think you can
> do currently using the on delete cascade and would
> require separate deletes. It'd make sense that you should
> be able to do that, however... It doesn't really work with
> how they're implemented currently, so it'd certainly be
> a while before it'd change in any case.

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