Re: [PATCH] Support for Array ELEMENT Foreign Keys - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: [PATCH] Support for Array ELEMENT Foreign Keys
Date
Msg-id 201210221813.20301.andres@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: [PATCH] Support for Array ELEMENT Foreign Keys  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [PATCH] Support for Array ELEMENT Foreign Keys  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On Monday, October 22, 2012 06:08:32 PM Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > I tested, and indeed this seems to work:
> >     CREATE TABLE t1 (c int[] WHERE EACH ELEMENT REFERENCES t2);
> > 
> > and it's perfectly sensible from an English-grammar standpoint too.
> > If we take that, how would we spell the table-constraint case exactly?
> > Grammatically I'd prefer
> > 
> >     FOREIGN KEY (foo, EACH ELEMENT OF bar) REFERENCES
> 
> Are people happy with these syntax proposals, or do we need some other
> color for the bikeshed?

Except that I'd prefer a WHERE in the table-constraint case as well for 
consistencies sake I am unsurprisingly happy with the proposal.

Greetings,

Andres
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