Thread: Bug #616: Alter table add foreign key

Dirk Jacobs (dirk.jacobs@tuple.be) reports a bug with a severity of 1
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Short Description
Alter table add foreign key

Long Description
I tried to execute following SQL alter table PRICEGROUP add FOREIGN KEY  ("PARENT") REFERENCES "PRICEGROUP" ON DELETE
CASCADE

this gives an error ALTER TABLE: column "PARENT" referenced in foreign key constraint does not exist (7) while I'm sure
thatthe column exists and is Non null. I'm using version 7.2 on linux redhat 7.2
 


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At 07.24 15/03/02 -0500, you wrote:
>I tried to execute following SQL alter table PRICEGROUP add FOREIGN
>KEY  ("PARENT") REFERENCES "PRICEGROUP" ON DELETE CASCADE
>
>this gives an error ALTER TABLE: column "PARENT" referenced in foreign key
>constraint does not exist (7) while I'm sure that the column exists and is
>Non null. I'm using version 7.2 on linux redhat 7.2

Hello Dirk,
if you are using double quotes around the column name the name won't be
translated in lowercase; maybe the column name wasn't created this way and
that's why you caon't find it. Try to
alter table pricegroup add foreign key (parent) references pricegroup on
delete cascade
without using double quotes.

Just my 0.02

Ciao,
         Stefano