I seem to have an issue where I can't modify a table due to another
tables foreign key association:
[CODE]trinity=# \d developers Table "public.developers" Column | Type | Modifiers
--------------+----------------+-----------id | character(10) | not nullname | character(50) | not
nulladdress| character(50) |city | character(50) |state | character(2) |zip | character(10) |country |
character(50) |phone | character(50) |email | character(255) |
Indexes: "developers_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id)
Referenced by: TABLE "orders" CONSTRAINT "fk_orders_developers" FOREIGN KEY (id)
REFERENCES developers(id)
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Now I want to change the formatting of field data in 'id' in table 'developers':
[CODE]trinity=# SELECT id FROM developers; id
------------100000000110000000021000000003100000000410000000051000000006
(109 rows)
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Now when I try and change the values before I alter the field TYPE, I
get an error that another table (orders) with a foreign key associated
with public.developers 'id' field still has old values therefor can't
change / modify the 'developers' table.
[CODE]trinity=# UPDATE developers SET id = '1000' WHERE id = '1000000001';
ERROR: update or delete on table "developers" violates foreign key
constraint "fk_orders_developers" on table "orders"
DETAIL: Key (id)=(1000000001) is still referenced from table "orders".
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How does one accomplish my goal? Is this difficult to change or once
that foreign key is created, are you stuck with that particular
constraint?