Re: Deferrable FK not behaving as expected.

On 12/7/20 12:19 PM, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> Ron schrieb am 07.12.2020 um 19:15:
>> Referenced by:
>>      TABLE "sales_detail" CONSTRAINT "fk_sales_detail_sales_header"
>>            FOREIGN KEY (cust_id, order_ts) REFERENCES
>> sales_header(cust_id, order_ts) *DEFERRABLE*
>
> I think if you only mention "deferrable" this is the same as "deferrable
> initially immediate",
> so you will need to make them deferrable in your transaction:
>
>     SET CONSTRAINTS ALL DEFERRED;
>
> or create the constraint with
>
>     deferrable initially deferred

OK.  For some reason, I thought INITIALLY DEFERRED was only applicable to
INSERT and UPDATE statements.

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