From: | Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> |
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To: | Tuan Luu <tuanluu(at)gmx(dot)ch> |
Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Foreign Key Question |
Date: | 2004-02-13 00:45:20 |
Message-ID: | 20040213004520.GA22135@wolff.to |
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On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:59:12 +0100,
Tuan Luu <tuanluu(at)gmx(dot)ch> wrote:
> Example:
>
> Table 1:
> Inventory, Productnr, Productserial
> (PK Inventory, Prouctnr)
>
> Table 2:
> Pruductnr, Produktdesc, Productversion
> (PK Productnr; FK Productnr)
>
> This Construct gives me an error during the creation in Postgresql
> (saying there is no unique constraint matching given keys for referenced
> table xxxx). The Primary Key in table 1 consists of two columns. In the
> second table there is a foreign key refencing to the first table.
>
> A unique constraint doesn't make sense on table one. Am I missing
> something here?
Having typos in what you show us doesn't help.
Inventory, Productnr being unique does not imply Productnr is unique.
If Productnr in table 1 is unique, you should make a unique constraint
on it. If it isn't unique you can't use a foreign key reference and you
will need to write your own trigger functions to do whatever makes sense
for your problem.
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