AW: PLEASE help with foreign key and inheritance proble m

> I stated this before, but I did not get a helpful answer. I 
> might have 
> misunderstood tghe documentation on foreign keys:
> 
> create table global(id serial);
> create table child(anything text) inherits(global);

need:create unique index child_id_index on child (id);

> gives me an error: 
> CREATE TABLE will create implicit trigger(s) for FOREIGN KEY check(s)
> ERROR:  UNIQUE constraint matching given keys for referenced 
> table "child" 
> not found  

Then the above works. 
Actually the error message sounds sufficiently clear to me, no?

Andreas