Re: Table inheritance foreign key problem - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Richard Broersma
Subject Re: Table inheritance foreign key problem
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Msg-id AANLkTi=TkYu0Ja9N84X_PVv1BfAFtdfByuvw30M_ks=a@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Table inheritance foreign key problem  ("Andy Chambers" <achambers@mcna.net>)
Responses Re: Table inheritance foreign key problem  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Andy Chambers <achambers@mcna.net> wrote:
\
> create table guidebooks (
>  city check (city in (select name
>                         from cities)),
>  isbn text,
>  author text,
>  publisher text);

This is a nice idea.  They only problem is that PostggreSQL doesn't
support sub-selects in a tables check constraints:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/sql-createtable.html


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Richard Broersma Jr.

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