Re: DELETE trigger, direct or indirect?

On 2/16/23 05:23, Dominique Devienne wrote:
> Hi. This is a bit unusual. We have a foreign key between two tables,
> with ON DELETE CASCADE, to preserve referential integrity. But we
> apparently also need to preserve the severed reference (by natural key,
> i.e. its name), to later on reconnect the two entities after-the-fact,
> should the parent row re-appear later on (in the same transaction or not
> it still unclear).

This is going to need a more detailed description of the relationship
between the two tables:

1) The actual FK relationship.

2) What "...preserve the severed reference (by natural key,  i.e. its
name)" means?

3) What information will be used to reconnect the child rows to the
parent rows?