I have a couple of tables:
usersis full of users.itemis full of items.itemcan have multiplesecond_items.usersare able to havesecond_items via tableusers_items.
When I delete a item all second_item and users_items should be removed too. So I setup some constraints that should delete child table records. But it leaves the record in users_items.
Here is my MySQL queries:
CREATE TABLE `item` (
`id` int(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
`name` varchar(63) DEFAULT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
INSERT INTO `item` (`id`, `name`) VALUES (1, 'test');
CREATE TABLE `second_item` (
`id` int(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
`item_id` int(10) UNSIGNED DEFAULT NULL,
`name` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
INSERT INTO `second_item` (`id`, `item_id`, `name`) VALUES
(1, 1, 'test');
CREATE TABLE `users` (
`id` int(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
`email` varchar(200) DEFAULT NULL,
`password` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
INSERT INTO `users` (`id`, `email`, `password`) VALUES (1, 'test', 'test');
CREATE TABLE `users_items` (
`id` int(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
`user_id` int(10) UNSIGNED DEFAULT NULL,
`item_id` int(10) UNSIGNED DEFAULT NULL,
`item_second_id` int(10) UNSIGNED DEFAULT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
INSERT INTO `users_items` (`id`, `user_id`, `item_id`, `item_second_id`) VALUES (1, 1, 1, 1);
ALTER TABLE `second_item`
ADD PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
ADD KEY `item_id` (`item_id`);
ALTER TABLE `item` ADD PRIMARY KEY (`id`);
ALTER TABLE `users` ADD PRIMARY KEY (`id`);
ALTER TABLE `users_items`
ADD PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
ADD KEY `user_id` (`user_id`),
ADD KEY `item_id` (`item_id`),
ADD KEY `item_second_id` (`item_second_id`);
ALTER TABLE `second_item`
ADD CONSTRAINT `constraint1` FOREIGN KEY (`item_id`) REFERENCES `item` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE;
ALTER TABLE `users_items`
ADD CONSTRAINT `constraint2` FOREIGN KEY (`item_id`) REFERENCES `item` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE,
ADD CONSTRAINT `constraint3` FOREIGN KEY (`item_second_id`) REFERENCES `second_item` (`id`) ON DELETE SET NULL ON UPDATE CASCADE,
ADD CONSTRAINT `constraint4` FOREIGN KEY (`user_id`) REFERENCES `users` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE;
I try to do the following delete query, but it leaves a record in users_items:
DELETE FROM `item` WHERE `item`.`id` = 1;
This "bug" happens on:
- WAMP (Server version: 5.7.16 - MySQL Community Server (GPL))
- UBUNTU (5.7.20-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 - (Ubuntu))
EDITED:
The bug is caused by the order you add constraints:
ALTER TABLE `users_items`
ADD CONSTRAINT `constraint1` FOREIGN KEY (`item_id`) REFERENCES `item` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE,
ADD CONSTRAINT `constraint2` FOREIGN KEY (`item_second_id`) REFERENCES `second_item` (`id`) ON DELETE SET NULL ON UPDATE CASCADE,
ADD CONSTRAINT `constraint3` FOREIGN KEY (`user_id`) REFERENCES `users` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE;
ALTER TABLE `second_item`
ADD CONSTRAINT `constraint4` FOREIGN KEY (`item_id`) REFERENCES `item` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE;
This way it is fixed.