Re: Inheritance: delete parent deletes children

At 17.37 04.10.02, Stephan Szabo wrote:

>On 2 Oct 2002, M. I. wrote:
>
> > But I just realized that things actually go into that "logging" table,
> > not into the child tables. I wonder how the database knows which row
> > in logging is related to which row in a child table.
>
>Well, selects, inserts, updates, deletes by default go through the
>inheritance tree if you do them on a parent, so select * from
>logging will show rows from the child tables.  You can use ONLY
>to turn off that behavior (select * from ONLY logging) should
>show rows only in that particular table and not the children.

Oh, I see. Yes, it seems to make sense.

But the Delete is scary. It looks like I could inadvertently empty the
whole database with a DELETE FROM logging; if I forget that it
happens to have (many) children.

The day I die, I certainly hope my children will survive me :-) ...

Is there something I can do with rules, to protect me from this
"exterminator" attitude of the database?

Thank you for your help,

Mi