Re: FK's to refer to rows in inheritance child - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: FK's to refer to rows in inheritance child
Date
Msg-id 1291220197.2006.57.camel@ebony
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In response to FK's to refer to rows in inheritance child  (Yeb Havinga <yebhavinga@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 15:07 +0100, Yeb Havinga wrote:

> FK's cannot refer to rows in inheritance childs. With some changes in 
> LockRows, together with removing the ONLY keyword in ri_trigger.c, it 
> was possible to refer to the rows in child relations. (WIP patch attached)

This has a userspace solution, which seems preferable technically.

Just have an Object table that is referred to by all parts of the
hierarchy, maintained by triggers. With PK.

CASCADE doesn't work, but then that was an open issue there anyway.

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