Re: References to SERIAL

From: Thomas SMETS <tsmets(at)altern(dot)org>
To: "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)net>
Cc: psql sql <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: References to SERIAL
Date: 2000-12-30 22:43:22
Message-ID: 3A4E650A.9F682D@altern.org
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Yeap,

Tx Brett. The syntaxe you gave means much more to me than the one I got
from the Book "PostresSQL : Introduction & Concept" from Bruce Momjian
seems a bit short while the PostgreSQL user guide from Thomas LOCKHART
has the full theorical description.

I'll probably stick more with the second one in the future.

Thomas,

>
> You mean as a foreign key? You would do something like
>
> create table books_authors (
> book integer references book(book_pk)
> on delete no action,
> author integer references author(author_pk)
> on delete no action,
> ...
> );
>
> This forces integrity between the tables so the only allowable values in
> the books_authors table are those values in the referenced fields (foreign
> keys).
>
> You will probably want to look up the documentation on contraints and
> foreign keys (I believe they are under the CREATE TABLE documentation).
>

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