From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | "Leif B(dot) Kristensen" <leif(at)solumslekt(dot)org> |
Cc: | pgsql <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Error from trigger |
Date: | 2005-12-07 23:23:05 |
Message-ID: | 4507.1133997785@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Leif B. Kristensen" <leif(at)solumslekt(dot)org> writes:
> I have a trigger that will delete records referring to an "events" table
> upon deletion. I have used it without problems for a number of times:
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION delete_event_cascade() RETURNS TRIGGER AS $$
> BEGIN
> DELETE FROM event_citations WHERE event_fk = OLD.event_id;
> DELETE FROM participants WHERE event_fk = OLD.event_id;
> RETURN OLD;
> END;
> $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;
> CREATE TRIGGER delete_event_cascade
> BEFORE DELETE ON events
> FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE delete_event_cascade();
> The event_citations table is a cross-reference between events and
> sources, and goes like this:
> CREATE TABLE event_citations (
> event_fk INTEGER REFERENCES events (event_id),
> source_fk INTEGER REFERENCES sources (source_id),
> PRIMARY KEY (event_fk, source_fk)
> );
Is there a reason you don't just mark the FK reference as ON DELETE
CASCADE, rather than using a handwritten trigger?
> And then, as I try to delete event #2600, I get the following message:
> pgslekt=> delete from events where event_id=2600;
> ERROR: relation with OID 1141502 does not exist
> CONTEXT: SQL statement "DELETE FROM event_citations WHERE event_fk= $1 "
> PL/pgSQL function "delete_event_cascade" line 2 at SQL statement
Offhand this looks like you might have dropped and recreated the
event_citations table? If so it's just the known problem that
plpgsql caches plans and doesn't throw them away when the referenced
objects change.
regards, tom lane
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