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Dyre Tjeldvoll updated DERBY-3078:
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    Derby Info:   (was: [Existing Application Impact])

> Better error messages needed when foreign key constraint creation fails 
> because of delete-connection violations
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>                 Key: DERBY-3078
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-3078
>             Project: Derby
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: SQL
>    Affects Versions: 10.2.2.0
>         Environment: N/A
>            Reporter: Nick Williamson
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Derby produces messages like this when creating a schema:
> "ERROR 42915: Foreign  Key 'PIN_FK1' is invalid because 'the delete rule of 
> foreign key can not be CASCADE. (The relationship would cause another table 
> to be delete-connected to the same table through multiple paths with 
> different delete rules or with delete rule equal to SET NULL.)"
> "ERROR 42915: Foreign  Key 'VC_FK3' is invalid because 'the delete rule of 
> foreign key  must be CASCADE. (The relationship would cause the table to be 
> delete-connected to the same table through multiple relationships and such 
> relationships must have the same delete rule (NO ACTION, RESTRICT or 
> CASCADE).)
> In a large schema with many FK constraints, it is extremely difficult to 
> identify the table that is actually causing the problem. Obviously, one of 
> them will be either the table to which the constraint is being added or the 
> table that is referenced by the constraint, but which is the other table? I 
> have to examine all the children & parents of the tables involved in the 
> constraint and keep working iteratively up & down through their own parents 
> and children until I finally find two conflicting delete paths for the same 
> table. 
> There have been several instances where I'm just unable to get to the bottom 
> of the problem because of the complexity of the table relationships in my 
> schema. The error messages need to explicitly name the tables instead of 
> referring to "the table" and "the other table", and they need to give the 
> name of the already-existing FK constraint that has prevented "this" FK 
> constraint from being created successfully.

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