The submit button on the form located at
http://www.postgresql.org/bugs/bugs.php?1 results in a report of a
parsing error, so I'm sending this here as the alternative.
Is the following a bug in the referential integrity system? This is
for PG 7.0.0. I realize that declaring the "ref" column in t2
additionally as "not null" would prevent this. However, why does the
"references" check allow insertion of a null value into t2 when there
are no corresponding null value in the num column of t1?
If this is actually fixed in 7.0.2, then please accept my apologies.
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=> create table t1 (num int4, name text);
CREATE
=> create table t2 (ref int4 references t1 (num), val text);
NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit trigger(s) for FOREIGN KEY check(s)
CREATE
=> insert into t1 values (1, 'Widget1');
INSERT 17518650 1
=> insert into t2 values ( (select num from t1 where name = 'Widget1'), 'Valuable');
INSERT 17518651 1
=> insert into t2 values ( (select num from t1 where name = 'widget2'), 'Bug?');
INSERT 17518652 1
=> select * from t2;
ref | val
-----+----------
1 | Valuable
| Bug?
(2 rows)
=> select * from t2 where ref is null;
ref | val
-----+------
| Bug?
(1 row)
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