Re: Sometimes referential integrity seems not to work

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Tom Lane wrote:

> Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com> writes:
> > On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Enio Schutt Junior wrote:
> >> In a database I am working, I sometimes have to delete all the records in
> >> some tables. According to the referential integrity defined in the creation
> >> of the tables, postmaster should not delete the records, but it does. I have
> >> used the following commands: "delete from table_1" and "truncate table_1".
> >> ...
> >> can the postgres user delete records despite referential integrity?
>
> I think the first PG release or two that had TRUNCATE TABLE would allow
> you to apply it despite the existence of foreign-key constraints on the
> table.  Recent releases won't though.

Yeah, truncate didn't worry me much, but the implication that delete from
table_1; worked did.