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Re: Hierarchical Deletion via a Trigger?

by Dennis Cote :: Rate this Message:

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John Elrick wrote:
> I'm a bit stumped and was curious if anyone had an elegant solution for
> this problem.  Assuming the following simplified example, my goal is to
> cascade the deletes until all parent/child relations have been deleted.  
> The trigger removes the first level, but stops there (I believe this
> behavior is documented).  I can think of a delete query which would also
> remove the first level, but am having a brain lock on any single query
> which would walk a chain of arbitrary length.
>
> Am I missing something obvious?  

No.

> If not, does anyone have any brilliant ideas?
>

See
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.sqlite.general/17286/match=managing+trees+database
for a method I use to manage trees in SQLite that works very well.

HTH
Dennis Cote
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