Oracle数据库中,外键约束只允许级联删除,不允许级联更新,因此,如果想要实现主表数据更新后,子表外键自动更新,只能取消外键关系,通过前端程序来维护实现完整引用,一个代替的解决方案是使用延迟约束和触发器:
1:建立延迟外键约束:
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1 Alter table slavetable add constraint FK_ST_FID references primarytable (PID) on delete cascade deferrable;
2:建立触发器:
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1 create or replace trigger TRG_ST_FID 2 after update on slavetable 3 for each row 4 begin 5 if :old.PID <> :new.PID then 6 update slavetable set FID=:new.PID where FID=:old.PID; 7 end if; 8 end;
这样可以实现级联更新。