I triggered a user’s posts deletion. Since the posts weren’t deleted, I looked at sidekiq and /logs. The deletion process returns an error: Job exception: PG::ForeignKeyViolation: ERROR: update or delete on table "reviewables" violates foreign key constraint "fk_rails_2fe5fa5cd0" on table "review…

Looks like this is a bug and at the moment you need to delete the comment: [image] User deletion problem, returns "Error 500" on delete all posts Support Thanks! Your guess was spot on. User had few flagged posts by moderators and one of them had a note added.…

Can't delete a user's posts: InvalidForeignKey

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darkpixlz (Pyx ) March 11, 2026, 3:21pm 2

Looks like this is a bug and at the moment you need to delete the comment:

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Can't delete a user's posts: InvalidForeignKey

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