Re: CASCADING update

Be careful.  Since it appears you have delete cascade, when you delete
user 2, then all children in the other tables for 2 will be deleted as
well.

I tend to put in delete restrict to prevent accidentally deleting a lot
of important data.

As far as what you are trying to do, unfortunately I don't think there
is an easy way to do this without explicitly updating each table.

Would like to know if there is though.

Thanks,
Regina

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Subject: [NOVICE] CASCADING update

I have a base table User (id serial primary key, name text);
and a lot of tables like this
Foo (id integer references User on update cascade on delete cascade,
....);

Assume I have
id =1 name= aaa
id =2 name= bbb

in the user table

and now I wish to remove the user with id=2, but I also want to
update all the Foo tables and set the id to 1 (the other user takes
over all the items),  but I do  not want to do this by calling update
for each table separatly.
The "on update cascade" sounds like what I need, in some way, but I'm
not sure how to really use it in this case.
Is it possible? If yes, how?

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