Re: foreign key constraints, cannot delete

You havn't posted the exact error message. You'll have to if you want
people to properly explain what's going on...

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 04:07:43PM -0500, Josh Close wrote:
> How can a delete rows from a table that has foreign key constraints?
> Here is how I have it set up.
>
> I have 2 tables, tableA has fields and id's and tableB has fields that
> reference tableA's id's. I'm not able to do this
>
> BEGIN TRANSACTION;
>
> DELETE FROM tableB
> WHERE tableAid = 5;
>
> DELETE FROM tableA
> WHERE id = 5;
>
> COMMIT TRANSATION;
>
> Even though I delete everything from tableB that references tableA, I
> can't delete the field from tableA.
>
> Is this because of the begin and commit? Do I need to commit after each delete?
>
> The only problem with commiting after each is, if one fails for some
> reason, I need it to rollback.
>
>
> -Josh
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