On Thursday 2005-12-08 15:47, Simon Riggs wrote: > does of course already exist, so the following should cause dependency > violation ERRORs: > - omitting the CASCADE when attempting to delete parent constraint > - attempting to drop the child constraint
Why should dropping the child constraint fail? Child tables are supposed to be able to over-ride parent constraints. Dropping a parent's constraint sounds like just a way to over-ride a constraint with no constraint at all. (Making the column unconstrained.) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org