On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:07:13PM -0300, Marcelo Pereira wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am in trouble deleting rows in cascade.
>
> I have a scheme like this:
>
> create table author (author_cod integer primary key, author_name char(20));
> create table book (book_cod integer primary key, book_autor integer references
>author(author_cod), book_title char(30));
>
> I would like to delete a 'author' in the author table and also all your books in the
>book table.
create table book (
book_cod integer primary key,
book_autor integer
references author(author_cod)
on delete cascade,
book_title char(30)
);
What is bad on PG's docs? ...see:
[ CONSTRAINT name ] REFERENCES reftable [ ( refcolumn ) ]
[ MATCH matchtype ]
[ ON DELETE action ]
[ ON UPDATE action ]
[ [ NOT ] DEFERRABLE ]
[ INITIALLY checktime ]
Karel
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