On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Rajesh Kumar Mallah. wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 July 2002 21:41, you wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Rajesh Kumar Mallah. wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > This problem has been troubling me for quite sometime and
> > > I would be very thankful for your help.
> > >
> > > I have included the complete commented script to recreate the problem in
> > > question.
> > >
> > > The problem is inside a plpgsql function i do not see the records in the
> > > slave tables getting deleted when i delete the corresponing referenced
> > > record from the master table.
> > >
> > > But things as expected inside a Transaction at the PSQL prompt.
> >
>
> > It should get deleted, but it won't be deleted until the end of the
> > user's sql statement (ie, not until after the function has finished).
>
> Hi thanks for the reply,
>
> Is it a bug? or is it expected ,
Well, we're not 100% sure it's correct, but it's the expected behavior
unless someone can point to something in SQL99 to make us change it. :)
> what if i do not want to fire sperate delete SQLs for the slave
> tables ?
I'm not sure what you mean by this.