Re: References to SERIAL - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Thomas SMETS
Subject Re: References to SERIAL
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Msg-id 3A4E650A.9F682D@altern.org
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In response to Re: References to SERIAL  ("Brett W. McCoy" <bmccoy@chapelperilous.net>)
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Yeap,

Tx Brett. The syntaxe you gave means much more to me than the one I got
from the Book "PostresSQL : Introduction & Concept" from Bruce Momjian
seems a bit short while the PostgreSQL user guide from Thomas LOCKHART
has the full theorical description.

I'll probably stick more with the second one in the future.

Thomas, 



> 
> You mean as a foreign key?  You would do something like
> 
> create table books_authors (
>         book integer references book(book_pk)
>                 on delete no action,
>         author integer references author(author_pk)
>                 on delete no action,
>         ...
> );
> 
> This forces integrity between the tables so the only allowable values in
> the books_authors table are those values in the referenced fields (foreign
> keys).
> 
> You will probably want to look up the documentation on contraints and
> foreign keys (I believe they are under the CREATE TABLE documentation).
> 

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