Re: [HACKERS] Help with pl/pgsql, triggers, and foreign keys

At 11:22 PM 1/28/00 -0500, Roland Roberts wrote:
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>The Postgres guide says that foreign keys can be partially emulated
>via triggers.  Just how "partial" is this.  I can't seem to get the
>following to work.  Would it work if I wrote it in C?  Would I need to
>open a second connection to the database?  Would it work if my second
>key was really in another table?

Given that foreign keys are implemented in the current sources and
coming out for real in v7.0 beta in two weeks, how much effort do
you really want to put into emulation???



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