Re: Add Foreign Keys To Table

From: Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Add Foreign Keys To Table
Date: 2011-07-07 21:12:41
Message-ID: alpine.LNX.2.00.1107071411480.20399@salmo.appl-ecosys.com
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On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, John R Pierce wrote:

> if your original table has Primary Key of (sta_type, secondary_type) I
> would not expect EITHER of those fields to be unique by themselves....
> Surely there can be more than one of the same sta_type with different
> secondary_type's, just as there could be more than one secondary_type with
> different sta_types.... if either of these fields is unique of and by
> itself, it doesn't make sense to use the combined primary key.

John,

Ah, yes. Of course. That's why the compound primary key is required. I'll
redo the table the proper way.

Thanks,

Rich

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