The following sequence, which works in 7.0.2, now fails in current
sources:
CREATE TABLE person
( ptype SMALLINT, id CHAR(10) PRIMARY KEY, name TEXT NOT NULL, address
INTEGER REFERENCES address (id) ON UPDATE CASCADE
ON DELETE NO ACTION, salutation TEXT DEFAULT 'Dear Sir', envelope TEXT, email
TEXT, www TEXT, CONSTRAINT person_ptype CHECK (ptype >= 0 AND ptype <= 8), FOREIGN KEY (id, address)
REFERENCESaddress(person, id)ON UPDATE CASCADEON DELETE RESTRICT
)
NOTICE: CREATE TABLE/PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index 'person_pkey' for
table 'person'
NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit trigger(s) for FOREIGN KEY check(s)
CREATE
CREATE TABLE individual
( gender CHAR(1) CHECK (gender = 'M' OR gender = 'F' OR
gender IS NULL), born DATE CHECK ((born >= '1 Jan 1880' AND
born <= CURRENT_DATE) OR born IS NULL), surname
TEXT, forenames TEXT, title TEXT, old_surname TEXT, mobile TEXT, ni_no TEXT,
CONSTRAINTis_named CHECK (NOT (surname IS NULL AND forenames IS NULL)), CONSTRAINT individual_ptype CHECK (ptype = 1
OR(ptype >= 5 AND ptype <=
7)), FOREIGN KEY (id, address) REFERENCES address(person, id)ON UPDATE CASCADEON DELETE RESTRICT
) INHERITS (person)
NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit trigger(s) for FOREIGN KEY check(s)
ERROR: columns referenced in foreign key constraint not found.
I think this means that the FOREIGN KEY installer thinks that table
"individual" does not have columns "id" and "address", which are
inherited from "person". However, if this is correct, the wording of the
error message is poorly chosen, since it seems to refer to the columns
mentioned after the REFERENCES keyword.
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Oliver Elphick Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver
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