不。要做到这一点，只需为要级联的表编写delete语句。

DELETE FROM some_child_table WHERE some_fk_field IN (SELECT some_id FROM some_Table);
DELETE FROM some_table;

不。要做到这一点，只需为要级联的表编写delete语句。

DELETE FROM some_child_table WHERE some_fk_field IN (SELECT some_id FROM some_Table);
DELETE FROM some_table;

I wrote a (recursive) function to delete any row based on its primary key. I wrote this because I did not want to create my constraints as "on delete cascade". I wanted to be able to delete complex sets of data (as a DBA) but not allow my programmers to be able to cascade delete without thinking through all of the repercussions. I'm still testing out this function, so there may be bugs in it -- but please don't try it if your DB has multi column primary (and thus foreign) keys. Also, the keys all have to be able to be represented in string form, but it could be written in a way that doesn't have that restriction. I use this function VERY SPARINGLY anyway, I value my data too much to enable the cascading constraints on everything. Basically this function is passed in the schema, table name, and primary value (in string form), and it will start by finding any foreign keys on that table and makes sure data doesn't exist-- if it does, it recursively calls itsself on the found data. It uses an array of data already marked for deletion to prevent infinite loops. Please test it out and let me know how it works for you. Note: It's a little slow. I call it like so: select delete_cascade('public','my_table','1');

create or replace function delete_cascade(p_schema varchar, p_table varchar, p_key varchar, p_recursion varchar[] default null)
 returns integer as $$
declare
    rx record;
    rd record;
    v_sql varchar;
    v_recursion_key varchar;
    recnum integer;
    v_primary_key varchar;
    v_rows integer;
begin
    recnum := 0;
    select ccu.column_name into v_primary_key
        from
        information_schema.table_constraints  tc
        join information_schema.constraint_column_usage AS ccu ON ccu.constraint_name = tc.constraint_name and ccu.constraint_schema=tc.constraint_schema
        and tc.constraint_type='PRIMARY KEY'
        and tc.table_name=p_table
        and tc.table_schema=p_schema;

    for rx in (
        select kcu.table_name as foreign_table_name, 
        kcu.column_name as foreign_column_name, 
        kcu.table_schema foreign_table_schema,
        kcu2.column_name as foreign_table_primary_key
        from information_schema.constraint_column_usage ccu
        join information_schema.table_constraints tc on tc.constraint_name=ccu.constraint_name and tc.constraint_catalog=ccu.constraint_catalog and ccu.constraint_schema=ccu.constraint_schema 
        join information_schema.key_column_usage kcu on kcu.constraint_name=ccu.constraint_name and kcu.constraint_catalog=ccu.constraint_catalog and kcu.constraint_schema=ccu.constraint_schema
        join information_schema.table_constraints tc2 on tc2.table_name=kcu.table_name and tc2.table_schema=kcu.table_schema
        join information_schema.key_column_usage kcu2 on kcu2.constraint_name=tc2.constraint_name and kcu2.constraint_catalog=tc2.constraint_catalog and kcu2.constraint_schema=tc2.constraint_schema
        where ccu.table_name=p_table  and ccu.table_schema=p_schema
        and TC.CONSTRAINT_TYPE='FOREIGN KEY'
        and tc2.constraint_type='PRIMARY KEY'
)
    loop
        v_sql := 'select '||rx.foreign_table_primary_key||' as key from '||rx.foreign_table_schema||'.'||rx.foreign_table_name||'
            where '||rx.foreign_column_name||'='||quote_literal(p_key)||' for update';
        --raise notice '%',v_sql;
        --found a foreign key, now find the primary keys for any data that exists in any of those tables.
        for rd in execute v_sql
        loop
            v_recursion_key=rx.foreign_table_schema||'.'||rx.foreign_table_name||'.'||rx.foreign_column_name||'='||rd.key;
            if (v_recursion_key = any (p_recursion)) then
                --raise notice 'Avoiding infinite loop';
            else
                --raise notice 'Recursing to %,%',rx.foreign_table_name, rd.key;
                recnum:= recnum +delete_cascade(rx.foreign_table_schema::varchar, rx.foreign_table_name::varchar, rd.key::varchar, p_recursion||v_recursion_key);
            end if;
        end loop;
    end loop;
    begin
    --actually delete original record.
    v_sql := 'delete from '||p_schema||'.'||p_table||' where '||v_primary_key||'='||quote_literal(p_key);
    execute v_sql;
    get diagnostics v_rows= row_count;
    --raise notice 'Deleting %.% %=%',p_schema,p_table,v_primary_key,p_key;
    recnum:= recnum +v_rows;
    exception when others then recnum=0;
    end;

    return recnum;
end;
$$
language PLPGSQL;

当你创建新表时，你可以添加一些约束，如UNIQUE，或NOT NULL，也可以告诉SQL当你试图删除行时，它应该做什么动作，它对另一个表有引用

CREATE TABLE company (
                id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
                name VARCHAR(128),
                year DATE);
CREATE TABLE employee (
                id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
                first_name VARCHAR(128) NOT NULL,
                last_name VARCHAR(128) NOT NULL,
                company_id INT REFERENCES company(id) ON DELETE CASCADE,
                salary INT,
                UNIQUE (first_name, last_name));

所以在这之后，你可以删除任何你需要的行，例如:

DELETE
FROM company
WHERE id = 2;

你可以用ON DELETE CASCADE来定义外键约束。 我引用外键约束的手册:

CASCADE指定当一个被引用的行被删除时， 引用它也应该被自动删除。

我不能评论帕勒霍斯的答案，所以我加上了我自己的答案。 帕勒霍斯的逻辑是可以的，但大数据集的效率可能很差。

DELETE FROM some_child_table sct 
 WHERE exists (SELECT FROM some_Table st 
                WHERE sct.some_fk_fiel=st.some_id);

DELETE FROM some_table;

如果列上有索引，数据集比少数记录大，那么速度会更快。