Since the update of my PostgreSQL server to 11.4 some of my automated migrations of a web app (Phoenix on Elixir)
startedto fail. I’ve narrowed it down to not being able to do the following:
GIVEN THESE TABLES:
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Table "public.users"
Column | Type | Collation | Nullable | Default
--------+--------+-----------+----------+-----------------------------------
id | bigint | | not null | nextval('users_id_seq'::regclass)
Indexes:
"users_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id)
Referenced by:
TABLE "likes" CONSTRAINT "likes_user_id_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (user_id) REFERENCES users(id)
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Table "public.posts"
Column | Type | Collation | Nullable | Default
--------+--------+-----------+----------+-----------------------------------
id | bigint | | not null | nextval('posts_id_seq'::regclass)
Indexes:
"posts_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id)
Referenced by:
TABLE "likes" CONSTRAINT "likes_post_id_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (post_id) REFERENCES posts(id)
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Table "public.likes"
Column | Type | Collation | Nullable | Default
-------------+-----------------------------+-----------+----------+-----------------------------------
id | bigint | | not null | nextval('likes_id_seq'::regclass)
user_id | bigint | | |
post_id | bigint | | |
inserted_at | timestamp without time zone | | not null |
updated_at | timestamp without time zone | | not null |
Indexes:
"likes_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id)
"unique_user_post_index" UNIQUE, btree (user_id, post_id)
"likes_post_id_index" btree (post_id)
"likes_user_id_index" btree (user_id)
Foreign-key constraints:
"likes_post_id_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (post_id) REFERENCES posts(id)
"likes_user_id_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (user_id) REFERENCES users(id)
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I am not able to run the (generated) alter statement:
ALTER TABLE "likes"
DROP CONSTRAINT "likes_user_id_fkey",
ALTER COLUMN "user_id" TYPE bigint,
ADD CONSTRAINT "likes_user_id_fkey" FOREIGN KEY ("user_id") REFERENCES "users"("id") ON DELETE CASCADE,
DROP CONSTRAINT "likes_post_id_fkey",
ALTER COLUMN "post_id" TYPE bigint,
ADD CONSTRAINT "likes_post_id_fkey" FOREIGN KEY ("post_id") REFERENCES "posts"("id") ON DELETE CASCADE
But the following statement does work:
ALTER TABLE "likes"
DROP CONSTRAINT "likes_user_id_fkey",
ADD CONSTRAINT "likes_user_id_fkey" FOREIGN KEY ("user_id") REFERENCES "users"("id") ON DELETE CASCADE,
DROP CONSTRAINT "likes_post_id_fkey",
ADD CONSTRAINT "likes_post_id_fkey" FOREIGN KEY ("post_id") REFERENCES "posts"("id") ON DELETE CASCADE
Is this how it is supposed to work or is it a bug?