foreign keys and inheritance problem - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Edoardo Panfili
Subject foreign keys and inheritance problem
Date
Msg-id 4C64286B.4050501@aspix.it
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Responses Re: foreign keys and inheritance problem
List pgsql-general
hi,
I am in some trouble with my tables defined using inheritance, This is a
semplified test case:

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create table sub1( name1 text) inherits(father);
create table sub2( name2 text) inherits(father);
create table other (description text, id integer);

-- I know, the contraints is not checked in sub1 and sub2
ALTER TABLE father ADD UNIQUE(id);
ALTER TABLE other ADD FOREIGN KEY (id) REFERENCES father(id);

insert into sub1 (id,name1) VALUES(1,'row1 in sub1');
insert into sub2 (id,name2) VALUES(2,'row1 in sub2');
select * from father;
  id
----
   1
   2

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I can't insert data in "other" table:
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test=# insert into other(id,description) VALUES(1,'test');
ERROR:  insert or update on table "other" violates foreign key
constraint "other_id_fkey"
DETAIL:  Key (id)=(1) is not present in table "father".
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Is there a way to do this thing? Or I must remove the foreign key
constraint?


thank you
Edoardo

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