Igor Tandetnik wrote: > John Elrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm a bit stumped and was curious if anyone had an elegant solution >> for this problem. Assuming the following simplified example, my goal >> is to cascade the deletes until all parent/child relations have been >> deleted. The trigger removes the first level, but stops there (I >> believe this behavior is documented). I can think of a delete query >> which would also remove the first level, but am having a brain lock >> on any single query which would walk a chain of arbitrary length. >> > > It's impossible in pure SQL, unless the DBMS supports special syntax for > recursive queries, and/or recursive triggers. SQLite supports neither. > You would have to code the recursion in your host application. >
I was afraid that was the case. Thank you Igor. John _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
