Re: why it doesn't work? referential integrity

2007/8/11, Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>:
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> "Pavel Stehule" <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
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> >   checked_by INT REFERENCES users (id) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE SET NULL,
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> > CONTEXT:  SQL statement "UPDATE ONLY "public"."tasks" SET "worker" =
> > NULL WHERE $1 OPERATOR(pg_catalog.=) "worker""
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> This says you mistyped the constraint above to refer to tasks(worker) instead
> of users(id). Did you?
>
> --

Im sorry. I don't understand.  It's look like wrong evaluation order:

1. delete from users
2. update tab set col = NULL

insead

1. update ... -- remove references
2. delete from users ...

Pavel Stehule



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