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sql: support region-local ON DELETE SET NULL for foreign keys on REGIONAL BY ROW tables
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Description
### Is your feature request related to a problem?
For `REGIONAL BY ROW` tables, a foreign key with `ON DELETE SET NULL` can require cross-region reads/writes when the referencing rows live in a different region than the deleted row. This adds cross-region latency to cascading deletes/updates.
### Describe the solution you'd like
Provide a region-local form of `ON DELETE SET NULL` for foreign key constraints on `REGIONAL BY ROW` tables, so the cascade action can be resolved within the local region (analogous to other region-local optimizations for RBR tables), avoiding cross-region hops.
### Additional context
Relevant to multi-region foreign-key performance for `REGIONAL BY ROW` tables. Tracking this for 26.4 planning.
Jira issue: CRDB-65897
Contributor guide
Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is identified in the issue. Begin by locating the existing region-local optimizations for REGIONAL BY ROW foreign keys and the ON DELETE SET NULL implementation; done means an agreed design with coverage for local cascade behavior and cross-region cases.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go, sql
- Domain
- databases, distributed-systems, performance
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100