Possible problems with cyclic references - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Gary Stainburn
Subject Possible problems with cyclic references
Date
Msg-id 01072312302101.27033@gary.ringways.co.uk
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Hi all, me again.

I've been looking at the doc's again (must stop doing that!)

I've been looking at the 'references' clause to implement referential 
integrity.  My problem is that I'm wanting to create a cyclic reference, and 
was wondering what problems this may cause, e.g. when restoring from a 
pg_dump.

I have a region table (rregion character(2), rname varchar(40), rliasson 
int4).
I have a teams table (ttid int4, tregion character(2) references 
region(rregion),...)
I have a members table (mid int4, mteam references teams(tid),.........)

Pretty straight forward so far, a member must be a part of a team and a team 
must be in a region.  My problem is that I want to set rliasson as a 
reference to members (mid) as the Regional Liasson Officer for each region is 
a member.
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