Re: foreign keys - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: foreign keys
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Msg-id 200008052339.TAA07157@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to foreign keys  (Radoslaw Stachowiak <radek@alter.pl>)
Responses Re: foreign keys  (Radoslaw Stachowiak <radek@alter.pl>)
Re: foreign keys  (<vectro@pipeline.com>)
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> Not to mentions fact that in a few places in docs it's shown as a method
> for copying table "SELECT... INTO" which does not "take" keys with it
> leading to database knwoledge loss.

That is a good point.  SELECT INTO doesn't support constraints.
Unfortunately, I don't really know a way around that.  The only solution
is CREATE TABLE and then INSERT INTO ... SELECT.

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