On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 15:11 -0400, Colin Beckingham wrote:
>
> On 04/06/2012 02:40 PM, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 08:03 -0400, Colin Beckingham wrote:
> >> Given 3 tables, authors, books and words, each has a primary key.
> >>
> >> Attempting to use pgadmin to add a foreign key to books to link authors
> >> to books, and a key to words to link words to books.
> >>
> >> The first step works ok (ignoring previously reported backtrace) and the
> >> foreign key is added to books linking it to authors. However when
> >> attempting to add a foreign key to words, pgadmin can still only see the
> >> authors table as a reference table.
> >>
> >> Tried reloading and refreshing but pgadmin does not seem to see beyond
> >> the authors table for the 'referencing' dropdown.
> >>
> >> Maybe I am missing a step. table books definitely has a primary key.
> >
> > Can you give us your tables' definition? Thanks.
> >
> >
>
> CREATE TABLE authors
> (
> authid serial NOT NULL,
> name character varying(250) NOT NULL,
> CONSTRAINT authors_pkey PRIMARY KEY (authid )
> );
> CREATE TABLE books
> (
> bookid serial NOT NULL,
> authid integer NOT NULL,
> title character varying(250) NOT NULL,
> CONSTRAINT books_pkey PRIMARY KEY (bookid ),
> CONSTRAINT books_authid_fkey FOREIGN KEY (authid)
> REFERENCES authors (authid) MATCH SIMPLE
> ON UPDATE NO ACTION ON DELETE NO ACTION,
> CONSTRAINT books_bookid_key UNIQUE (bookid )
> );
> CREATE TABLE words
> (
> wordid serial NOT NULL,
> lemma character varying(100),
> bookid integer,
> wcount integer,
> CONSTRAINT words_pkey PRIMARY KEY (wordid )
> );
> CREATE INDEX words_bookid_idx
> ON words
> USING btree
> (bookid );
>
Thanks. So, I don't see any issues adding an fkey on words. Can you
describe more precisely what you do?
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Guillaume
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