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TRUNCATE violates Referential Integrity

Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> — 2000-06-25T22:26:16Z

This is a problem in release 7.0.2.

I had never heard of the truncate command!  It seems that it ought to be
disallowed on a table that is a target for RI checks, since checking that
deletions are OK would frustrate the whole purpose of truncate as opposed
to delete.

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Date:    25 Jun 2000 13:49:14 +0000
From:    Grzegorz Stelmaszek <greg@tenet.pl>
To:      submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#66232: postgresql: TRUNCATE doesn't check REFERENCE clause

Package: postgresql
Version: 7.0-release-1
Severity: normal

TRUNCATE'ing the table allows rows to be deleted in spite of the REFERENCES
clause pointing to that table. These may bring the db to an inconsistent
state.

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