I was just creating this little database for demonstrating the use of
foreign keys constraints.
I was about the create 3 tables, namely mother, father and child. Mother has
a foreign key pointing at father ( id ), and father has a foreign key
pointing at mother ( id ). Child has one pointer to mother ( id ) and one
pointer to father ( id ). How can I prevent the error message from occurring?
Ofcourse I see the problem here... just by taking away the references
keyword from the mother table takes away the problem completely.
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DROP SEQUENCE mother_id_seq;
DROP SEQUENCE father_id_seq;
DROP SEQUENCE child_id_seq;
DROP TABLE mother;
DROP TABLE father;
DROP TABLE child;
CREATE TABLE mother (
id SERIAL,
fatherID INT4 NOT NULL REFERENCES father ( id ) ON DELETE CASCADE,
name TEXT,
UNIQUE ( fatherID )
);
CREATE TABLE father (
id SERIAL,
motherID INT4 NOT NULL REFERENCES mother ( id ) ON DELETE CASCADE,
name TEXT,
UNIQUE ( motherID )
);
CREATE TABLE child (
id SERIAL,
motherID INT4 NOT NULL REFERENCES mother ( id ) ON DELETE CASCADE,
fatherID INT4 NOT NULL REFERENCES father ( id ) ON DELETE CASCADE,
name TEXT
);
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Thanks
Daniel Akerud
