Re: [Gnumed-devel] (no subject)

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 06:23:29AM +0800, Syan Tan wrote:

> >> >> update clin_root_item set fk_episode = currval('pk_episode_seq')      
> >>      
> >> this of course , being contingent on Karsten allowing updates     
> >> to clin_root_item is special circumstances, ? a special group permission   
> >>    
> >     
> >It's not that I don't feel like allowing that for personal     
> >reasons. It's rather that doing so is inherently unsafe in     
> >PostgreSQL, eg child tables' keys WILL NOT GET UPDATED by it.     
...
> may it's an older version of postgres ;     
> I dropped the update rule on clin_root_item and did the following:     

Seems you are right !  Updating a parent table strikes through
to the child. In the process I discovered, that updating the
child table does not enforce the foreign key constraints
inherited from the parent table... I knew that but forgot to
take proper account of it. Fixing in our schema, currently.

Karsten
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