Tom Lane writes:
> It doesn't say that, because it isn't true. What is true is that if you
> make a trigger that prevents updates from happening, it breaks RI
> updates as well as directly-user-initiated updates.
Can we detect that this happened and throw an error? I suspect not, though,
sinc
Tom,
You can't have your cake and eat it too, Josh. If we make the RI
mechanism operate at a level underneath triggers, then we'll lose all
sorts of useful capability that people are depending on. A couple of
examples:
* the ability to log table changes caused by RI cascades
* the ability to