Re: [PATCH] Support for Array ELEMENT Foreign Keys

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Marco Nenciarini <marco(dot)nenciarini(at)2ndquadrant(dot)it>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support for Array ELEMENT Foreign Keys
Date: 2012-10-22 16:12:48
Message-ID: 50857080.6020307@dunslane.net
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On 10/22/2012 12:08 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
>> I tested, and indeed this seems to work:
>> CREATE TABLE t1 (c int[] WHERE EACH ELEMENT REFERENCES t2);
>> and it's perfectly sensible from an English-grammar standpoint too.
>> If we take that, how would we spell the table-constraint case exactly?
>> Grammatically I'd prefer
>> FOREIGN KEY (foo, EACH ELEMENT OF bar) REFERENCES
> Are people happy with these syntax proposals, or do we need some other
> color for the bikeshed?

I can live with it, although the different spelling is slightly jarring.

cheers

andrew

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