And you were right. It turned out to be a stupid idea anyway. Let that
be a lesson for the next programmer who tries to be lazy ;-)

On Jul 7, 12:32 am, Michael Bayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jul 6, 2007, at 5:50 PM, Koen Bok wrote:
>
>
>
> > I have a strange situation. If someone _really_ needs to know why I
> > could explain.
>
> > When an object gets deleted by SQLAlchemy, it's related objects are
> > getting updated setting their foreign keys referring to the deleted
> > items to NULL. But what if I don't want that to happen? Viewonly is
> > not an option here, as I need to be able to make changes.
>
> it wants to maintain referential integrity.  if you werent using  
> SQLite, you'd get an error on any other database if it were not set  
> to NULL.   that the foreign key value can store a value which doesnt  
> exist otherwise seems to imply youre setting it manually, in which  
> case "viewonly" could still work for you.  we dont have an option  
> right now for it to populate foreign keys but to not clear them out  
> (also have gone this far without anyone *truly* needing it....).


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