Serial no longer sets a unique index on the field, which I think it did prior
to 7.3. You need to explicitly add one, as primary key I'd guess.
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Ed L. wrote:
> Well, I've stared at this little riddle for long enough. Anyone see a
> mistake?
>
> $ cat test.sql
> SELECT version();
>
> CREATE TABLE person (
> id SERIAL,
> name VARCHAR NOT NULL
> );
>
> CREATE TABLE session (
> id SERIAL,
> person_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
> FOREIGN KEY (person_id) REFERENCES person (id)
> );
>
>
>
> $ dropdb drilldb; createdb drilldb; psql -e -d drilldb -f test.sql
> DROP DATABASE
> CREATE DATABASE
> SELECT version();
> version
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> PostgreSQL 7.3.2 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.2
> 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)
> (1 row)
>
> CREATE TABLE person (
> id SERIAL,
> name VARCHAR NOT NULL
> );
> psql:test.sql:6: NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence
> 'person_id_seq' for SERIAL column 'person.id'
> CREATE TABLE
> CREATE TABLE session (
> id SERIAL,
> person_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
> FOREIGN KEY (person_id) REFERENCES person (id)
> );
> psql:test.sql:12: NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence
> 'session_id_seq' for SERIAL column 'session.id'
> psql:test.sql:12: NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit trigger(s) for
> FOREIGN KEY check(s)
> psql:test.sql:12: ERROR: UNIQUE constraint matching given keys for
> referenced table "person" not found
>
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