> On 03 Jan 2015, at 14:11, Alban Hertroys <haram...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 02 Jan 2015, at 13:31, Rafal Pietrak <ra...@ztk-rp.eu> wrote:
>> Would it violate SQL standard (signifficantly), if an "on delete set null" 
>> action just ignored all the FK columns that have a "NOT NULL" constraint set?
> 
> As I understand it, this is precisely why Boyce-relationality forbids NULLs 
> in primary keys, although I’m not so sure he’s right about that.

Well, that’s embarrassing, it’s only a few weeks since I learned this and I’m 
already attributing the theory to the wrong database deity! That’s 
Codd-relationality, of course. Not Boyce.

Alban Hertroys
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cut the trees and you'll find there is no forest.



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