Circular Dependency in Tables and Deletion of Data

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Hello,

Note: I know that its not a very good db design. But what if a senario
comes in front of you?

I have created an uncommon database design. Which is as follows:
Created 2 Tables :- Emp1 and Emp2

TableA with 2 Attributes
  A1 and A2.
  A1 is the primary key.

TableB with 2 Attributes
  B1 and B22.
  B1 is primary key
  B2 is refereing to Emp1.Pr1

Now I have altered table for addeing one more foreign key constraint.
The constraint is on TableA.A2 refering to TableB.B1

This creates the circular dependency.
Now I have add one record in each table then "Will it allow me to
delete without schema change??"If yes then how?
I can not delete the tables also??
Is this a useless functionality given in DB or where is this used?
Can postgres detect it automatically and restrict it to do so?
Is any other DB restricts this kind of functionality or not?

Sample code is given below for trial purpose....

create table TableA (
    A1 integer primary key,
    A2 integer
);

create table TableB (
    B1 integer primary key,
    B2 integer references TableA(A1)
);

ALTER TABLE TableA ADD CONSTRAINT distfk FOREIGN KEY (A2) REFERENCES
TableB(B1) MATCH FULL;

Insert INTO TableA values (1,null);
Insert INTO TableB values (100,1);

Update TableA SET A2 = 100 WHERE A1 = 1;
Delete FROM TableA;

Isnt it a crazy thing??

Regards,
Mans



[Index of Archives]     [KVM ARM]     [KVM ia64]     [KVM ppc]     [Virtualization Tools]     [Spice Development]     [Libvirt]     [Libvirt Users]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Questions]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [XFree86]

  Powered by Linux