Re: Question on Analyze and Foreign Key Constraints

From: Steve Butler <sbut-is_at_seatimes.com>
Date: 1996/02/29
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960229162714.19979B-100000_at_seatimes>#1/1

On 28 Feb 1996, Ken Brouillette wrote:
> I was recently testing out the cost based optimizer for performance
> comparison purposes and ran 'analyze table compute statistics' on several
> tables. During a recent application upgrade, it was necessary to drop
> and recreate the integrity constraints on the database. Several of these
> failed with the error "No parent keys found." I reran analyze, removed the
> statistics, and the constraints worked fine.

I'm going to guess that you are on version 7.0.16. Known bug on that release (and maybe a few others). I think it was still broke on 7.1.4 and seems to be fixed on 7.2.2 (although other things are broke).

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