On 30/10/2015 22:10, David Blomstrom wrote:
> Just so I understand what's going on, I can create a lookup table by
> pasting this code...
>
> create table taxon (
> taxonid serial,
> descr text
> );
> create table gz_life_mammals (
> id serial,
> taxonid integer, -- use the lookup table
> parentid integer -- use the lookup table
> );
>
> ...into pgAdmin III, right? (I can't use the shell/terminal at the
> moment, and it will be at least a few weeks before I can get it fixed.)
> And this script will create TWO tables - gz_life_mammals and a matching
> "lookup table"?
Yes, it will. I haven't seen, what went before in this thread so may
have missed stuff, but you should also add a foreign key constraint
between the tables (for taxonid anyway, dunno what parentid refers to):
create table gz_life_mammals (
id serial,
taxonid integer, -- use the lookup table
parentid integer, -- use the lookup table
constraint mammals_taxon_fk foreign key (taxonid) references
taxon(taxonid)
);
If parentid also references taxon.taxonid, add a similar constraint for
it too,
Ray.
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