Re: references again

On May 22, 2005, at 4:53 PM, D.C. wrote:

> NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence
> "ventes_ventes_id_seq" for serial column "ventes.ventes_id"
> NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence
> "ventes_ventes_stock_id_seq" for serial column
> "ventes.ventes_stock_id"
> NOTICE: adding missing FROM-clause entry for table "stock"
> ERROR: only table "ventes" can be referenced in check constraint

As the error states, CHECK constraints currently only permit
comparisons within the same table. To compare values across tables,
such as you are looking to do, you need to use a trigger that will
raise an error if the conditions you desire are not met.

Check out the CREATE TRIGGER documentation in the SQL command
reference in the PostgreSQL docs. You're probably interested in
BEFORE INSERT and BEFORE UPDATE triggers.

<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/sql-createtrigger.html>

Hope this helps.

Michael Glaesemann
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