I have a Postgresql database on which I want to do a few cascading deletes. However, the tables aren't set up with the ON DELETE CASCADE rule. Is there any way I can perform a delete and tell Postgresql to cascade it just this once? Something equivalent to
DELETE FROM some_table CASCADE;
The answers to this older question make it seem like no such solution exists, but I figured I'd ask this question explicitly just to be sure.
No. To do it just once you would simply write the delete statement for the table you want to cascade.
DELETE FROM some_child_table WHERE some_fk_field IN (SELECT some_id FROM some_Table);
DELETE FROM some_table;