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

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: [PATCH] Support for Array ELEMENT Foreign Keys
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Msg-id 50857080.6020307@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: [PATCH] Support for Array ELEMENT Foreign Keys  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 10/22/2012 12:08 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?


I can live with it, although the different spelling is slightly jarring.

cheers

andrew




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