Re: FK pointing to a VIEW - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andreas Kretschmer
Subject Re: FK pointing to a VIEW
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Msg-id 20061110193650.GA1945@KanotixBox
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In response to FK pointing to a VIEW  (Sandro Dentella <sandro@e-den.it>)
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Sandro Dentella <sandro@e-den.it> schrieb:

> Do I understad correctly that i cannot point a Foreign Key to a view? Which
> is the rationale of this?

A VIEW is simply a regular SELECT ..., a string that contains a SELECT.

Question: How can you add a FK to a string? You can add a FK to a table,
no problem, but to a simple string?


Andreas
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