Foreign Key woes -- 7.2 and ~7.3 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Rod Taylor
Subject Foreign Key woes -- 7.2 and ~7.3
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Msg-id 0bbf01c1e561$4b1c0340$8001a8c0@jester
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Responses Re: Foreign Key woes -- 7.2 and ~7.3  (Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>)
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b=# create table stuff (stuff_id serial unique);
NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence
'stuff_stuff_id_seq' for SERIAL column 'stuff.stuff_id'
NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE / UNIQUE will create implicit index
'stuff_stuff_id_key' for table 'stuff'
CREATE
b=# create table stuff2 (stuff_id int4 references stuff on update
cascade on delete cascade);
NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE will create implicit trigger(s) for FOREIGN KEY
check(s)
ERROR:  PRIMARY KEY for referenced table "stuff" not found


You'll notice there isn't a primary key at all -- which shouldn't be
an issue as there is still the unique.

Not the brightest thing to do, but surely the primary key shouldn't be
enforced to exist before a plain old unique.

If thats the case, then unique indecies need to be blocked until there
is a primary key, or the first one should be automatically marked as
the primary key.
--
Rod Taylor

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how restful it is to watch the cursor blink. Close your eyes. The
opinions stated above are yours. You cannot imagine why you ever felt
otherwise.




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