Re: Primary key inheritance problem

On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 11:58, Bruno Baguette wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've a strange problem with inheritance on PostgreSQL 7.4.1. It seems
> like tables don't inherits the primary key of the 'mother' table.
...
> The error I get is :
> ERROR:  there is no unique constraint matching given keys for referenced
> table "child_foo"

Primary and foreign key constraints are not inherited.  This is a defect
in the current system.

> What can I do to solve that problem ?

Create an index table to provide a unique key for the whole hierarchy.
Each member of the hierarchy has a foreign key reference to it na has
its own primary key on the referencing field.  Use triggers to update
the index table.

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