Re: How to union tables and have a field with UNIQUE constraint? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Katona Gabor
Subject Re: How to union tables and have a field with UNIQUE constraint?
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Msg-id Pine.GSO.4.10.10201040857160.4534-100000@dragon
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In response to Re: How to union tables and have a field with UNIQUE constraint?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: How to union tables and have a field with UNIQUE constraint?  (Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>)
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> I would argue that this should be disallowed, since it does not do
> anything useful and can only mislead people into thinking that it
> has some effect.
> 
> Since triggers on a view won't do anything either, I don't see how one
> could expect REFERENCES to a view to work.  The system ought to reject
> all this stuff as unimplemented.
 OK, I understand the problem with referencing a view and I changed my code
to use CREATE TABLE AS instead of a view (the created table will change very
rarely, so I'll update it then via a trigger). Is this way ok now and will
work until the end of time :) ? And thanks for the answers.
    Gabor Katona




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