Btw., the term is "Referential integrity".
At some point there was something of that nature in the contrib dir but I
can't seem to find it now.
The usual way to solve this is to make a "rule" like so:
CREATE RULE check_for_junk AS ON insert TO table2 WHERE 0 = (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM table1 WHERE table1.ids = new.id) DO
INSTEADNOTHING;
and a similar one for updates. Perhaps you also want one "ON delete TO
table1" to check for the reverse condition.
Proper foreign keys are slated to appear in 7.0.
On 1999-11-14, juman mentioned:
> I'm working on a little database and got stuck with the following problem. I
> have two tables that look like this
>
> table1 ( ids char(4) )
> table2 ( id char(4), comment text)
>
> What I want to do is that if someone adds or updates a row in in table2 I
> want to verify that the <id> given exists in table1. And if it doesn't don't
> accept the modification and give the user a error message. Is there some way
> to do this?
>
> / Fredrik
>
>
> ************
>
>
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