Re: Recording foreign key relationships for the system catalogs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joel Jacobson
Subject Re: Recording foreign key relationships for the system catalogs
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Msg-id 70cd42c9-333c-457a-967d-5da58594b23b@www.fastmail.com
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In response to Re: Recording foreign key relationships for the system catalogs  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Recording foreign key relationships for the system catalogs
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On Tue, Feb 2, 2021, at 17:00, Tom Lane wrote:
>No, I think it's correct as-is (and this is one reason that I chose to
>have two separate FK entries for cases like this).  confrelid can be
>zero in rows that are not FK constraints.  However, such a row must
>also have empty confkey.  The above entry states that for each element
>of confkey, the pair (confrelid,confkey[i]) must be nonzero and have
>a match in pg_attribute.  It creates no constraint if confkey is empty.

Thanks for explaining, I get it now.

>Appreciate the review!  Please confirm if you agree with above
>analysis.

Yes, I agree with the analysis.

/Joel

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