On Thursday 2005-12-08 15:47, Simon Riggs wrote:
> does of course already exist, so the following should cause dependency
> violation ERRORs:
> - omitting the CASCADE when attempting to delete parent constraint
> - attempting to drop the child constraint
Why should dropping the child constraint fail?
Child tables are supposed to be able to over-ride parent constraints.
Dropping a parent's constraint sounds like just a way to over-ride a
constraint with no constraint at all. (Making the column unconstrained.)