Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Grzegorz Szpetkowski
> <gszpetkowski@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have some remark about
> >
> > "Now it is impossible to create orders with product_no entries that do
> > not appear in the products table."
> >
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/ddl-constraints.html#DDL-CONSTRAINTS-FK
> [...]
> >
> > There is still possibility to add product_no (exactly NULL) value,
> > which does not appear (cannot because of primary key nature) in
> > products table. To get "full solution" you need create orders table as
> >
> > CREATE TABLE orders (
> > ? ?order_id integer PRIMARY KEY,
> > ? ?product_no integer REFERENCES products (product_no) NOT NULL,
> > ? ?quantity integer
> > );
>
> I don't think we should change the example, but we could probably
> clarify the wording.
Any ideas on how to clarify the wording?
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