Hi

Are you using MYSQL ? and its InnoDB engine ?
MYISAM don't  provide integrity checking.


On 19 juin, 13:27, Michel Albert <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a table of "items", where each "item" can be "owned" by one
> person, and "held" by someone else. I want the "owner" to be
> compulsory (not nullable), and the holder to be optional (nullable).
> To model this I have two tables, one for contacts and one for items.
> The item table has two fields "owner_id" and "holder_id". Bot are
> references to the "contact" table and have the "on delete" rule set to
> "restrict" and "set null" respectively.
>
> The problem is that when I want to delete the contact attached to the
> "holder_id" column, it seems that SA tries to set *both* references to
> null. It should not do this! For example: If you have an item which
> has an owner_id "1" and a holder_id "2", then deleting the contact
> with ID "2" will cause the following query:
>
> 'UPDATE item SET owner_id=%(owner_id)s, holder_id=%(holder_id)s WHERE
> item.item_id = %(item_item_id)s' {'holder_id': None, 'item_item_id':
> 10, 'owner_id': None}
>
> First of all, *why* is SA issuing this query at all? A delete query
> would suffice. The ref. integrity should be handled by the DB,
> shouldn't it? More importantly, it updates both owner_id and
> holder_id. But as previously said, owner_id=1 and holder_id=2. So
> deleting contact #2 should only trigger - if at all - an update query
> to set holder_id to null.
>
> Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong here?
>
> Here's my model for those two tables:
>
> contact = Table( 'contact', metadata,
>       Column( 'contact_id', Integer, primary_key=True,
> nullable=False),
>       Column( 'label', Unicode(64), nullable=False ),
> )
>
> item = Table( 'item', metadata,
>       Column( 'item_id', Integer, nullable=False, primary_key=True ),
>       Column( 'label', Unicode(64) ),
>       Column( 'barcode', String(64) ),
>       Column( 'comment', UnicodeText() ),
>       Column( 'owner_id', Integer, ForeignKey('contact.contact_id',
>          onupdate="CASCADE", ondelete="RESTRICT"), nullable=False),
>       Column( 'holder_id', Integer, ForeignKey('contact.contact_id',
>          onupdate="CASCADE", ondelete="SET NULL"), nullable=True),
>       )

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