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From Phoenix Kiula
Subject Foreign Key with an "OR" condition (and two concatenated columns)?
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Responses Re: Foreign Key with an "OR" condition (and two concatenated columns)?  (David Johnston <polobo@yahoo.com>)
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Hi. Hope I'm articulating the question correctly.

I currently have a foreign key like this:

    "fk_table2" FOREIGN KEY (id) REFERENCES table1(id) ON DELETE CASCADE;

Given the peculiar needs of this db, it seems that in some cases we
will need to track the "id" of table2 against a concatenation of two
columns in table2. So in pseudocode, it would look something like
this.

    "fk_table2" FOREIGN KEY (id) REFERENCES table1(id   OR
id||'.'||column2) ON DELETE CASCADE;

Do I need a separate constraint for this?

Many thanks for any pointers!

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