Thank you for the quick response. If all my old constraints are NOT DEFERRABLE INITIALLY IMMEDIATE does that mean I don't have to worry about the deferrable keyword? mike On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 04:00:59PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Mike Haberman <mikeh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Will the following take care of all three statements? > > > ALTER TABLE ONLY assettype > > ADD CONSTRAINT at_fk_1 FOREIGN KEY (pid) REFERENCES assettype(id) > > ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE; > > Yes, there are three or so triggers under the hood of any FOREIGN KEY > constraint. > > regards, tom lane -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Haberman Senior Software/Network Research Engineer National Center for Supercomputing Applications 217.244.9370 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster