An issue was created about 6 months ago for Laravel Database Seeding. The issue was about how MySQL prevented the truncation of a table due to its foreign key constraints.
Tayor Otwell (the creator of Laravel) stated the following in his comment
https://github.com/laravel/framework/issues/243#issuecomment-13051091
Fixed. Not sure why people still insist on using foreign keys with seeding though. It's nothing but a headache, which is why Rails doesn't even support it.
Please explain how would I go about not using foreign keys with seeding.
An example table structure:
CREATE TABLE `posts` (
`id` INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`title` VARCHAR(45) NOT NULL,
`body` TEXT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
);
CREATE TABLE `comments` (
`id` INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
`comment` VARCHAR(500) NOT NULL ,
`post_id` INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL ,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ,
INDEX `fk_comments_1_idx` (`post_id` ASC) ,
CONSTRAINT `fk_comments_1`
FOREIGN KEY (`post_id` )
REFERENCES `blog_test`.`posts` (`id` )
ON DELETE NO ACTION
ON UPDATE NO ACTION
);
Thanks.