On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 21:21, Zhou, Lixin wrote:
> I like to create a trigger on table A. When a new row is inserted into A
> (ex: with i = 5), I like to have the trigger inserts a new row in table B
> whose field "i" has the same value as that of the A's (ex: i = 5).
>
> As I do this, the error message is something like: "referential integration
> violation - key referenced in B not found in A". This makes sense to me
> since at the time the trigger inserts in B, A's new row is not visible yet
> -- not committed yet.
>
> How can I solve this problem using trigger?
Declare the foreign key constraints deferrable and defer them in the
session; they will be checked only at the end of the transaction.
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