Foreign Key can't refer to one of 2 primary keys - Mailing list pgsql-general

Hi all,
Suppose I have a table with more than one primary key. If I create another
table and I want one of the column of that second table REFERENCE to one of
the primary key of the first table, how do I do that?

eg
CREATE TABLE test
(
col1 VARCHAR(20),
col2 VARCHAR(20),
col3 VARCHAR(20),
PRIMARY KEY (col1,col2,col3)
);

CREATE TABLE myforeign
(
mycol1 VARCHAR(20) REFERENCES test,
mycol2 VARCHAR(25),
PRIMARY KEY(mycol1)
);

This gave me

ERROR:  number of key attributes in referenced table must be equal to foreign
key
        Illegal FOREIGN KEY definition references "test"


I don't se any obvious reason why I cannot do that. Any help?

Thanks.
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Reuben D. Budiardja