> Unlike DELETEs, UPDATEs don’t trigger cascaded actions - they only involve triggers that are explicitly defined.
That's not entirely true. ON UPDATE CASCADE is a thing for foreign keys, at least in PostgreSQL (which this article is talking about), meaning that the foreign row referencing the row gets updated. Though, personally, I would never use ON UPDATE CASCADE, as it seems kind of funky.
That's not entirely true. ON UPDATE CASCADE is a thing for foreign keys, at least in PostgreSQL (which this article is talking about), meaning that the foreign row referencing the row gets updated. Though, personally, I would never use ON UPDATE CASCADE, as it seems kind of funky.