Question

I have two tables, each referring the other (created by django ORM).
Each table references the other table.

Now I want to write a script that deletes all tables, but I’m failing to do so since I get foreign key violation
I’m doing

mysql> delete from table1
mysql> delete from table2

I know I can ignore the checks, but the problem is that these checks were generated by django with cryptic names

thanks.

Answer 1

You can do this –

SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0;

DELETE FROM table1;
DELETE FROM table2;

SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1;

Documentation: foreign_key_checks.