Re: Deferrable FK not behaving as expected.

Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>

From: Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2020-12-07T21:15:35Z
Lists: pgsql-general
On 12/7/20 1:27 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> writes:
>> Neither technique worked.
>> test=# ALTER TABLE sales_detail ALTER CONSTRAINT
>> fk_sales_detail_sales_header DEFERRABLE INITIALLY DEFERRED;
>> ALTER TABLE
> Hmm, reproduced here.  There seems to be some kind of bug
> in ALTER CONSTRAINT ---

Do I need to file a bug report?

>   it looks like it's updated all the
> child FKs successfully, but it actually hasn't.  If you
> drop the FK constraint altogether, and recreate it having
> DEFERRABLE INITIALLY DEFERRED from the start, it should
> work --- at least it does for me.

That worked.

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Commits

  1. Have ALTER CONSTRAINT recurse on partitioned tables