Re: Non Identifying Foreign Key Relationships - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: Non Identifying Foreign Key Relationships
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Msg-id 20030324163507.Q31026-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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In response to Non Identifying Foreign Key Relationships  ("Karen Grose" <kgrose@vigilos.com>)
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On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Karen Grose wrote:

> I am in the process of upgrading to Postgresql 7.3.1 from 7.1.  While
> testing the results of the conversion, I have run into an issue with
> establishing non-identifying or optional foreign key relationships.
>
> 1)  My child table definition contains a foreign key that references the parent primary key
> 2)  The child table column referencing the parent is not part of the child primary key
> 3)  The child table column referencing the parent is defined with NULLS allowed
>
>  The test that I performed tried to load NULL values into the column
> and it failed with a referential integrity violation stating that the
> parent must exist.  How do I accomplish creating this type of
> constraint within Postgresql version 7.3?

That should work I think, can you give a standalone example script?


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