On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Enio Schutt Junior wrote: > In a database I am working, I sometimes have to delete all the records in > some tables. According to the referential integrity defined in the creation > of the tables, postmaster should not delete the records, but it does. I have > used the following commands: "delete from table_1" and "truncate table_1". > When deleting records individually, referential integrity works (postmaster > does not allows deletion of records which are referred by another table). > Is there some difference between deleting records individually or at once? > Is there any possibility of the user who does this deletion (postgres, normal > users) affects the behaviour of referential integrity in the tables? That is, > can the postgres user delete records despite referential integrity?
It shouldn't. Can you give your version information and a complete standalone example? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly