Re: PostgreSQL Developer Best Practices

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 08:22:17PM -0400, Melvin Davidson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Berend Tober <btober@computer.org> wrote:
> >>     1) What happens if someone mis-types the account-id?
> >>           To correct that, you also need to correct the FK field in the
> >>     other dozen tables.
> >
> > ... ON UPDATE CASCADE ?
>
> I believe he's talking about triggers.

Huh? Why would you use a trigger when FOREIGN KEY has ON UPDATE CASCADE?

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