Re: Problem with alter table (creating a foreing key post

Stephan Szabo wrote:

>On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
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>>A curious problem with 7.3.1 : I wanted to add a foreing key constraint to
>>a table already created and populated. No way, according to Postgres :
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>It helps if you spell foreign correctly. ;)
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[ Feeling *very* silly ... ] Apologies ! English not being my mother
tongue, I overlooked this (although I checked lots of time before
helling for help ...).

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>essai=# alter table tableb add constraint lien_a_a foreing key (refa)
>references tablea (keya);
>ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "foreing" at character 44
>essai=# alter table tableb add foreing key (refa) references tablea (keya);
>ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "(" at character 36
>
Thank you !

Emmanuel Charpentier