Re: Delete with join -- deleting related table entries?

I'm not sure if this is true for you as I can't see your complete table
definitions, but I'd usually do this by using
 issue_id INTEGER REFERENCES issue ON DELETE CASCADE

in my column definition.

See [1] for more information.

[1]http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/ddl-constraints.html#DDL-CONSTRAINTS-FK