Subject Re: [firebird-support] Bypassing metadata referential integrity
Author Rafael Szuminski
silly me ;-)

Any idea if IF THEN statements will be possible in scripts in the near future?

Raf


Daniel Rail wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At December 4, 2003, 17:14, Rafael Szuminski wrote:
>
>
>>is there a way to bypass the referential integrity check when dropping an object
>>(View/table/SP etc.)?
>
>
> Unfortunately not. This is an issue that has been talked about quite a
> lot in the past. It is quite delicate and probably time consuming to
> implement a solution in Firebird, but that does not mean that it will
> be forgotten. Part of the solution that is being talked about is to
> recompile the SPs and views when there is a change in the objects that
> they depend on, and that would probably depend on what the change is.
>
>
>>What I am trying to do is prevent the messy scripts where you have to drop all
>>dependent objects first prior to dropping and recreating an object.
>
>
> Everybody would love that. One thing that has been implemented in FB
> 1.5, is the ability to compile an empty SP(using CREATE or ALTER).
>

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