On Dec 7, 2013, at 2:22 PM, Alexey Vihorev <[email protected]> wrote:

> Here is the full code:
>  
> from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
> from sqlalchemy import *
> from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship, sessionmaker
>  
> Base = declarative_base()
>  
> product_tags = Table(
>     'product_tags', Base.metadata,
>     Column('product_id', Integer, ForeignKey('products.id')),
>     Column('tag_id', Integer, ForeignKey('tags.id'))
>     )
>  
> class Tag(Base):
>     __tablename__ = 'tags'
>     id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
>     name = Column(Unicode(20))
>     products = relationship("Product", secondary=product_tags)
>  
> class Product(Base):
>     __tablename__ = 'products'
>     id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
>     name = Column(Unicode(20))
>  
>     tags = relationship("Tag", secondary=product_tags)
>  
>  
> engine = create_engine('postgresql://user:password@localhost/example')
> Session = sessionmaker(bind=engine)
> Base.metadata.drop_all(engine)
> Base.metadata.create_all(engine)
>  
> p1 = Product(name = 'Milk')
> p2 = Product(name = 'Water')
>  
> tag1 = Tag(name='Liquid')
>  
> p1.tags.append(tag1)
> p2.tags.append(tag1)
>  
> s = Session()
> s.add_all([p1, p2, tag1])
> s.commit()
> s.close()
>  
> s = Session()
> s.delete(s.query(Tag).first())
> s.commit()
> s.close()
>  
> After it runs, the product_tags table is completely empty.

that’s the right behavior, if you remove the Tag, then the row in “tags” is 
gone.  It would be a referential integrity violation if rows remained in 
product_tags.

if you want to remove rows from product_tags specifically, just alter the 
collections as needed:

p1.tags.remove(tag1)

this is a common misunderstanding so a documentation section exists for it:

http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_0_9/orm/relationships.html#deleting-rows-from-the-many-to-many-table



>  
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Jonathan Vanasco
> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 6:07 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [sqlalchemy] Re: Many2many, referential integrity and introspection
>  
> can you share your existing schema for these relations ?
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