adding on delete cascade constraint?

[Jean-Christian Imbeault]

Currently I have a table defined as such:

TAL=# \d internal_keywords
Table "public.internal_keywords"
Column | Type | Modifiers
---------+---------+-----------
keyword | text | not null
pid | integer | not null
Indexes: internal_keywords_pkey primary key btree (keyword, pid)
Foreign Key constraints: $1 FOREIGN KEY (pid) REFERENCES products(id) ON
UPDATE NO ACTION ON DELETE NO ACTION

How can I change the ON DELETE action to CASCADE for column pid?

I've check the alter table documentation but cannot find any reference
to this.

Thanks,

Jean-Christian Imbeault
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[Oliver Elphick]

On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 11:09, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:

Currently I have a table defined as such:

TAL=# \d internal_keywords
Table "public.internal_keywords"
Column | Type | Modifiers
---------+---------+-----------
keyword | text | not null
pid | integer | not null
Indexes: internal_keywords_pkey primary key btree (keyword, pid)
Foreign Key constraints: $1 FOREIGN KEY (pid) REFERENCES products(id) ON
UPDATE NO ACTION ON DELETE NO ACTION

How can I change the ON DELETE action to CASCADE for column pid?

I've check the alter table documentation but cannot find any reference
to this.

Drop the constraint; then add an amended one.

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[Jean-Christian Imbeault]

Oliver Elphick wrote:

Foreign Key constraints: $1 FOREIGN KEY (pid) REFERENCES products(id) ON
UPDATE NO ACTION ON DELETE NO ACTION

Drop the constraint; then add an amended one.

Ok, how do I drop the constraint, it has no name.

The documentation is rather poor on how to get the name of unamed
constraints:

"To remove a constraint you need to know its name. If you gave it a name
then that's easy. Otherwise the system assigned a generated name, which
you need to find out. The psql command \d tablename can be helpful here"

Secondly what is the correct syntax for adding a new constraint with ON
DELETE CASCADE?

Thanks,

Jean-Christian Imbeault

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[Oliver Elphick]

On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 14:02, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:

Oliver Elphick wrote:

Foreign Key constraints: $1 FOREIGN KEY (pid) REFERENCES products(id) ON
UPDATE NO ACTION ON DELETE NO ACTION
Drop the constraint; then add an amended one.

Ok, how do I drop the constraint, it has no name.

From what you quoted above, its name is $1
ALTER TABLE xxx DROP CONSTRAINT "$1"; -- double quotes required since
-- $1 is an identifier
Secondly what is the correct syntax for adding a new constraint with ON
DELETE CASCADE?

ALTER TABLE xxx ADD CONSTRAINT "$1" FOREIGN KEY (pid) REFERENCES
products(id) ON UPDATE NO ACTION ON DELETE CASCADE;

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[Richard Huxton]

On Friday 19 September 2003 14:02, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:

Oliver Elphick wrote:

Foreign Key constraints: $1 FOREIGN KEY (pid) REFERENCES products(id) ON
UPDATE NO ACTION ON DELETE NO ACTION
Drop the constraint; then add an amended one.

Ok, how do I drop the constraint, it has no name.

Its name is "$1" - use

DROP CONSTRAINT "$1" ...
Secondly what is the correct syntax for adding a new constraint with ON
DELETE CASCADE?

See the SQL command reference for ALTER TABLE. It's something like:

ALTER TABLE mytable ADD CONSTRAINT constraint_name FOREIGN KEY ... etc

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