我必须缺少SQLAlchemy的层叠选项的琐碎内容，因为我无法获得简单的层叠删除来正确操作-如果删除了父元素，则子对象将使用null外键保留。

我在这里放了一个简洁的测试用例：

from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, ForeignKey
from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship

from sqlalchemy import create_engine
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base

Base = declarative_base()

class Parent(Base):
    __tablename__ = "parent"
    id = Column(Integer, primary_key = True)

class Child(Base):
    __tablename__ = "child"
    id = Column(Integer, primary_key = True)
    parentid = Column(Integer, ForeignKey(Parent.id))
    parent = relationship(Parent, cascade = "all,delete", backref = "children")

engine = create_engine("sqlite:///:memory:")
Base.metadata.create_all(engine)
Session = sessionmaker(bind=engine)

session = Session()

parent = Parent()
parent.children.append(Child())
parent.children.append(Child())
parent.children.append(Child())

session.add(parent)
session.commit()

print "Before delete, children = {0}".format(session.query(Child).count())
print "Before delete, parent = {0}".format(session.query(Parent).count())

session.delete(parent)
session.commit()

print "After delete, children = {0}".format(session.query(Child).count())
print "After delete parent = {0}".format(session.query(Parent).count())

session.close()

输出：

Before delete, children = 3
Before delete, parent = 1
After delete, children = 3
After delete parent = 0

父母与子女之间存在简单的一对多关系。该脚本创建一个父级，添加3个子级，然后提交。接下来，它删除父级，但子级仍然存在。为什么？如何使孩子级联删除？