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

Mathias Panzenböck <grosser.meister.morti@gmx.net>

From: Mathias Panzenböck <grosser.meister.morti@gmx.net>

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

Cc: pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org

Date: 2025-06-20T20:35:40Z

Lists: pgsql-bugs

Am 20.06.25 um 17:14 schrieb Tom Lane:
> 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

I see. Thank you!