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Asked: 2026-05-25T18:39:05+00:00

A somewhat simply question, is one allowed, to break a foreign key inside a

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A somewhat simply question, is one allowed, to break a foreign key inside a trigger?

That is, can I break the foreign key inside my trigger function, if I restore it before returning from the trigger function?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yes you can:

    CREATE TRIGGER bi_example BEFORE INSERT ON example FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
  SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0;
  -- do stuff
  SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=1;
END $$
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