Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > As far as this question, seems with no RESTRICT/CASCADE, it fails, with
> > RESTRICT it drops the trigger, and with CASCADE it drops the referencing
> > table. Is that accurate?
>
> Not at all. CASCADE would drop the foreign key constraint (including
> the triggers that implement it), but not the other table. In my mind
> the issue is whether RESTRICT mode should do the same, or report an
> error.
>
> I'm not eager to accept the idea that DROP-without-either-option should
> behave in some intermediate fashion. I want it to be the same as
> RESTRICT.
Sounds good to me, and I don't think we need to require RESTRICT just
because the standard says so. Does the standard require RESTRICT for
every DROP or just drops that have foreign keys?
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