Thread: on update, how to change the value?

Hi.
If I have table A (x integer  primary key);
and table B (y integer references A on delete cascade );

and that a new item (x=70) gets inserted into A and a lot of items go into B that references the new item in A.
Now, if I really have to do:

delete from A where x=5;
update A set x=5 where x=70;

is there a way to make all the items in B change from 70 to 5 automatically (it must be done automatically since B can be a lot more than a signle table)?

There is an  "on update" option to the create table command, but I can't find out if that will help me. The docs are unfortunatly a little short on describing the "on update" option.

Will "on update cascade" propagate the update to the B table?

A B wrote:
> Hi.
> If I have table A (x integer  primary key);
> and table B (y integer references A on delete cascade );

> There is an  "on update" option to the create table command, but I can't
> find out if that will help me. The docs are unfortunatly a little short on
> describing the "on update" option.
>
> Will "on update cascade" propagate the update to the B table?

Yes.

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd