Re: Referencing "less-unique" foreign keys

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
Cc: Alban Hertroys <alban(at)magproductions(dot)nl>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, vincent(at)magproductions(dot)nl
Subject: Re: Referencing "less-unique" foreign keys
Date: 2005-08-09 15:18:09
Message-ID: 16323.1123600689@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> writes:
> Alban Hertroys wrote:
>> I'm not sure how we got the "content" column from "description" to
>> reference "localization" back in version 7.3. Fact is, we can't seem to
>> do this anymore since version 7.4:

> I don't have 7.3.x to hand any more, but if you could create such a
> reference it was a bug.

Having just tried it, I can say that the last version that would take
that without complaint is 7.0. 7.1 and later give variants of

ERROR: UNIQUE constraint matching given keys for referenced table "localization" not found

So I'm not sure what Alban actually did.

regards, tom lane

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