Re: Referencing Serial Type as Foreign Key

Rich Shepard wrote:
>   Don't know why I've not come across this before, but I have now.
>
>   In a table definition I reference the primary key of another table. That
> key is of datatype SERIAL. In the referencing table, do I define the column
> as
>
>   col_name INTEGER REFERENCES other-table (primary_key_field),
>
> or is the datatype SERIAL because that's what the referenced
> primary_key_field is?

Serial is a psuedo type to integer/big (depending on the type of
serial). What you have above should work fine.

SIncerely,

Joshua D. Drake


>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>


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