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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Using meta-data for foreign key?
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In response to Re: Using meta-data for foreign key?  (Mike Blackwell <maiku41@sbcglobal.net>)
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Mike Blackwell <maiku41@sbcglobal.net> writes:
> My question, then, is if it considered acceptable practice to, instead
> of having field_name in the secondary table, have a foreign key
> reference back to the field definition in the meta-data.

If you mean a foreign key reference into the system catalogs, we don't
support that :-(

            regards, tom lane

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