Re: Cascade constraint gone!!!

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Linh Luong wrote:

> I recently wipe my database away. And some of the tables have a UPDATE
> CASCADE on it to another table.
> When I reload the data from my backup that I did with pg_dumpall. My
> code started to give me an error because I tried to modify a table that
> was reference from another table. But the referenced table should have
> an UPDATE CASCADE. But according to the error it doesn't.

Hmm, what does the create constraint triggers in the dump say? And what
is in pg_trigger for the constraint?

> Is there a way to add the ON UPDATE CASCADE back without dropping any
> table again?

Well, you can manually delete the constraint triggers for this
constraint and use alter table add constraint to add the constraint again
with the appropriate actions.