Re: apparent RI bug

--- Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> wrote:

> > is 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 it returned something that would have prevented the delete without
> an error, yes.

this is very good news that there is a reason why the RI did not work,
which is to say, RI not working randomly is very frightening

> > if so, is this by design?
>
> It's basically an ongoing question (without concensus AFAIK) about
> whether
> a rule or trigger should be allowed to stop the referential action
> and
> what should happen if it does.

in my opinion the most important thing is that it's documented.

btw, cheers! you're my hero of the week!!

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