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Re: How to tell PostgreSQL about a relationship

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On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:44:29AM +0100, Thomas wrote:
> In pgAdmin I have removed a few order entries, but the items
> associated to them are still here, now I have zombie items floating
> around that don't belong to any order. So how do I tell PgSQL that
> when I remove a given order, it should remove all associated items
> also?

use foreign keys.

syntax to add them:
1. "references table (field)" in create table/
2. alter table add foreign key

Best regards,

depesz

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