On 2020-Nov-27, Alexander Farber wrote: > Referenced by: > TABLE "words_chat" CONSTRAINT "words_chat_gid_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (gid) > REFERENCES words_games(gid) ON DELETE CASCADE > TABLE "words_moves" CONSTRAINT "words_moves_gid_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (gid) > REFERENCES words_games(gid) ON DELETE CASCADE > TABLE "words_scores" CONSTRAINT "words_scores_gid_fkey" FOREIGN KEY > (gid) REFERENCES words_games(gid) ON DELETE CASCADE Make sure you have indexes on the gid columns of these tables. Delete needs to scan them in order to find the rows that are cascaded to. > So I ctrl-c (surprisingly not a single record was deleted; I was expecting > at least some to be gone) Ctrl-C aborts the transaction, so even though the rows are marked deleted, they are so by an aborted transaction. Therefore they're alive.
