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Re: BUG #18963: Column confupdsetcols missing in pg_catalog.pg_constraint

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: grosser.meister.morti@gmx.net
Cc: pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2025-06-20T15:14:59Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs 
PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
> Foreign key constraints have the option to list the columns that should be
> changed in ON DELETE/ON UPDATE SET NULL/SET DEFAULT. For the ON DELETE case
> these columns can be inspected with pg_catalog.pg_constraint.confdelsetcols,
> but there is no such column for the ON UPDATE case. Is this an oversight?

It's intentional, see here:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/85f8fcae-5a85-0d81-ae72-12c8a5cb271e%40enterprisedb.com#b7a607d6496828fd21caf2b6bd2b0f07

			regards, tom lane