Take two tables as an example: Customer containing customers and Product containing products purchased / used by customers.
Each product refers to a customer through the CustomerID foreign key , which corresponds to the primary key of the Customer table (they also have the same name).
When a customer is deleted, all products that reference this customer are deleted: Product.CustomerID has the ON attribute . DELETE CASCADE .
Now let's say that the client on the base should at least have a product:
when the product is removed, if it is the last product of the customer, then the client must also be deleted.
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER RemoveCustomer
AFTER DELETE ON Product
BEGIN
DELETE FROM Customer
WHERE CustomerID IN (
SELECT c.CustomerID
FROM Customer c
LEFT OUTER JOIN Product p
ON p.CustomerID = c.CustomerID
GROUP BY c.CustomerID HAVING COUNT(p.CustomerID) = 0
);
END;
/
This solution seems natural to me, but Oracle doesn't like it. Every time I uninstall the product, I get an error:
ORA-00036: maximum number of recursive SQL levels (50) exceeded
This is even if DELETE does not delete the program.
Surprisingly, this syntax works just fine:
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER RemoveCustomer
AFTER DELETE ON Product
BEGIN
FOR my_row IN (
SELECT c.CustomerID
FROM Customer c
LEFT OUTER JOIN Product p
ON p.CustomerID = c.CustomerID
GROUP BY c.CustomerID HAVING COUNT(p.CustomerID) = 0
)
LOOP
DELETE FROM Customer WHERE CustomerID = my_row.CustomerID;
END LOOP;
END;
/
Can someone explain why this is happening?
EDIT:
There is a working example here:
CREATE TABLE Customer (
CustomerID INTEGER PRIMARY KEY
);
CREATE TABLE Product (
ProductID INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
CustomerID INTEGER,
CONSTRAINT fk_Customer FOREIGN KEY (CustomerID)
REFERENCES Customer
ON DELETE CASCADE
);
INSERT INTo Customer (CustomerID) VALUES (0);
INSERT INTo Customer (CustomerID) VALUES (1);
INSERT INTo Customer (CustomerID) VALUES (2);
INSERT INTo Customer (CustomerID) VALUES (3);
INSERT INTo Customer (CustomerID) VALUES (4);
INSERT INTo Customer (CustomerID) VALUES (5);
INSERT INTo Customer (CustomerID) VALUES (6);
INSERT INTO Product (ProductID, CustomerID) VALUES (0, 0);
INSERT INTO Product (ProductID, CustomerID) VALUES (1, 0);
INSERT INTO Product (ProductID, CustomerID) VALUES (2, 1);
INSERT INTO Product (ProductID, CustomerID) VALUES (3, 2);
INSERT INTO Product (ProductID, CustomerID) VALUES (4, 3);
INSERT INTO Product (ProductID, CustomerID) VALUES (5, 3);
INSERT INTO Product (ProductID, CustomerID) VALUES (6, 3);
INSERT INTO Product (ProductID, CustomerID) VALUES (7, 4);
INSERT INTO Product (ProductID, CustomerID) VALUES (8, 5);
INSERT INTO Product (ProductID, CustomerID) VALUES (9, 5);
INSERT INTO Product (ProductID, CustomerID) VALUES (10, 6);
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER RemoveCustomer
AFTER DELETE ON Product
BEGIN
DELETE FROM Customer
WHERE CustomerID IN (
SELECT c.CustomerID
FROM Customer c
LEFT OUTER JOIN Product p
ON p.CustomerID = c.CustomerID
GROUP BY c.CustomerID HAVING COUNT(p.CustomerID) = 0
);
END;
/
DELETE FROM Product WHERE CustomerID = 3;