Re: undeleteable records

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tara Cooper <carat(at)pantz(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: undeleteable records
Date: 2001-07-17 20:49:45
Message-ID: 26457.995402985@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Tara Cooper <carat(at)pantz(dot)com> writes:
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> Has anyone encountered a problem where a delete sql statement works (no
> parser errors) but always returns a &quot;DELETE 0&quot; value, even when
> I'm sure the record I'm selecting for delete is in the table?&nbsp; I
> have also tried deleting the same record by specifying a different field
> value, with the same results, as well as trying all of this with multiple
> records in the same table.&nbsp; None of the records will delete.

Please don't send HTML mail to the lists...

I wonder whether you haven't got a foreign key relationship that forbids
the delete. Or a miswritten user-defined ON DELETE trigger.

regards, tom lane

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