From: | Andreas Wenk <a(dot)wenk(at)netzmeister-st-pauli(dot)de> |
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To: | Gianvito Pio <pio(dot)gianvito(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Table inheritance problem |
Date: | 2009-07-20 13:32:59 |
Message-ID: | 4A64720B.1060904@netzmeister-st-pauli.de |
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Gianvito Pio schrieb:
> Hello,
> I have 3 tables: persons, operators and persons_position.
>
> This is a semplified examples of their structures:
>
> CREATE TABLE persons
> (id varchar NOT NULL,
> CONSTRAINT "PK_Persons" PRIMARY KEY(id));
>
>
> CREATE TABLE operators
> (id varchar NOT NULL,
> CONSTRAINT "PK_Operators" PRIMARY KEY(id))
> INHERITS(persons);
>
> CREATE TABLE persons_position
> (id bigserial NOT NULL,
> person varchar NOT NULL);
>
> and then there is a FOREIGN KEY CONSTRAINT from persons_position.person
> TO persons.id.
>
> If I insert a tuple in operators...it results also in persons, but when
> I insert a tuple in persons_position, it says me I have violated the
> foreing key constraints. So it appears that the tuple really ISN'T in
> the persons table and the foreing key check fails.
>
> How could I solve it, keeping the inheritance there?
> Thanks
Hi,
sure it does throw that error. Your foreign key constraint is wrong. The check will look
like this:
test=# insert into persons_position values(2,'andy');
ERROR: insert or update on table "persons_position" violates foreign key constraint
"persons_position_persons_fkey"
DETAIL: Key (person)=(andy) is not present in table "persons".
You could solve it by altering the table persons:
test=# alter table persons add column person varchar(255);
ALTER TABLE
test=# insert into persons_position values(2,'andy');
INSERT 0 1
Or change the foreign key constraint in persons_position to id (be careful - the datatypes
are different)
Cheers
Andy
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