On Saturday 23 January 2010 6:15:36 am Davor J. wrote:
> I am logged in as superuser. I am trying to create something similar to
> this:
>
>
> Code:
> CREATE TABLE tbl_unit_convfunctions(
> unit_from integer REFERENCES tbl_units (unit_id),
> unit_to integer REFERENCES tbl_units (unit_id),
> proc_id oid REFERENCES pg_proc (oid)
> )but no matter what I refer to from pg_proc, i get the error message:
>
> ERROR: permission denied: "pg_proc" is a system catalog
> SQL state: 42501
>
> Has anyone any suggestions how to do something similar, or even better: how
> to solve this error. I couldn't find any useful information on the net
> about this issue.
>
> Thanks,
> Davor
>
> Original post:
> http://forums.devshed.com/postgresql-help-21/referencing-to-system-catalog-
>problem-670063.html
>
> Note: OID's are unique in that table, and should be referable, and I
> explicitely granted the REFERENCE priviledge to the superuser.
You can't have FKs to system tables. See this post for explanation:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2004-12/msg00840.php
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Adrian Klaver
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