Well, okay I just answered part of my own solution...
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0;
ALTER TABLE rep_table ADD FOREIGN KEY (`rep_company_code`) REFERENCES
`company_table` (`company_code`) ON UPDATE CASCADE;
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=1;
Allowed that to happen.
I'm afraid to try the self referencing one b/c it seems there needs to be
some logic in there to work. Perhaps that is something I will just have to
manually UPDATE?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:daevid@stripped]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 7:34 PM
> To: mysql@stripped
> Cc: 'Victoria Reznichenko'
> Subject: RE: Foreign key update?
>
>
> Thanks Victoria for the pointer. I should have looked there
> first. Duh!
>
> Now for the help... I tried:
>
> ALTER TABLE rep_table ADD FOREIGN KEY (`rep_company_code`) REFERENCES
> `company_table` (`company_code`) ON UPDATE CASCADE;
>
> But get "ERROR 1216: Cannot add a child row: a foreign key
> constraint fails"
>
> I'm running version: 3.23.56-Max on RedHat 8 via RPM.
>
> I have data in both these tables, so dropping the tables and
> redoing schema
> is really not a graceful option if I can help it.
>
> Here are the two tables in their entirety. What have I done wrong?
>
> And just to clarify, I want this to work such that a change of the
> company_table.company_code will trigger the same change to the
> rep_table.rep_company_code.
>
> Ideally I'd also like it to be that if I change the
> company_table.company_code, then any other company that has a
> company_referal_code will change to the new company_code
> too... Does that
> make sense? Is that possible to have a self referencing
> foreign key like
> that? I thought I read that it isn't possible, but thought I'd ask.
>
> CREATE TABLE company_table (
> company_id mediumint(8) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
> company_timestamp timestamp(14) NOT NULL,
> company_name varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
> company_code varchar(8) NOT NULL default '',
> company_referal_code varchar(8) NOT NULL default '',
> company_incept date NOT NULL default '0000-00-00',
> company_phone varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',
> company_fax varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',
> company_url varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',
> company_address1 varchar(70) NOT NULL default '',
> company_address2 varchar(70) NOT NULL default '',
> company_city varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',
> company_state varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',
> company_zip varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',
> company_country varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',
> company_type_table_id tinyint(3) unsigned default NULL,
> company_type_level tinyint(3) unsigned default NULL,
> company_registered enum('Y','N') default 'N',
> company_notes longtext NOT NULL,
> PRIMARY KEY (company_id),
> KEY company_name (company_name),
> KEY company_type_table_id (company_type_table_id),
> KEY company_code (company_code)
> ) TYPE=InnoDB;
>
>
> CREATE TABLE rep_table (
> rep_id smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
> rep_login varchar(15) NOT NULL default '',
> rep_password varchar(15) NOT NULL default '',
> rep_company_code varchar(8) NOT NULL default '',
> rep_fname varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',
> rep_lname varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',
> rep_title varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',
> rep_email varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',
> rep_phone_office varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',
> rep_phone_cell varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',
> rep_address1 varchar(70) NOT NULL default '',
> rep_address2 varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',
> rep_city varchar(30) NOT NULL default '',
> rep_state varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',
> rep_zip varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',
> rep_country varchar(30) NOT NULL default '',
> rep_timestamp timestamp(14) NOT NULL,
> rep_incept date NOT NULL default '0000-00-00',
> rep_last_login date default '0000-00-00',
> rep_admin enum('Y','N') NOT NULL default 'N',
> rep_login_tally int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
> rep_limit smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL default '20',
> rep_certified enum('Y','N') default 'N',
> rep_notes longtext NOT NULL,
> PRIMARY KEY (rep_id),
> UNIQUE KEY rep_login (rep_login),
> KEY rep_logpass (rep_login,rep_password),
> KEY rep_company_code (rep_company_code)
> ) TYPE=InnoDB;
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Victoria Reznichenko [mailto:victoria.reznichenko@stripped]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 2:40 PM
> > To: mysql@stripped
> > Subject: Re: Foreign key update?
> >
> > Look at:
> > http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/InnoDB_foreign_key_constraints.html
>
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