Re: Foreign Keys to Non-primary keys? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: Foreign Keys to Non-primary keys?
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.21.0106210832560.3593-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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In response to Foreign Keys to Non-primary keys?  (zilch@home.se)
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 zilch@home.se wrote:

>
> Is it possible to have a foreign key to a non-primary key (also
> meaning non-unique and therefore non-indexed) column i a table?

Generally no.  It's not allowed by the spec, so as of 7.1, we
prevent it. Admittedly, you could pull the rug out from underneath
it by dropping the index, though.


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