The following bug has been logged online:
Bug reference: 1688
Logged by:
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PostgreSQL version: 8.0.3
Operating system: Linux
Description: inheritance and foreign key creation problem
Details:
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create table employee (
__key__ integer,
name varchar(10) not null,
surname varchar(20) not null,
phone varchar(12) not null,
unique (name, surname),
primary key (__key__)
);
create table boss (
dep_fkey integer unique
) inherits(employee);
create table department (
__key__ integer,
boss_fkey integer unique,
primary key (__key__),
foreign key (boss_fkey) references boss(__key__) initially deferred
);
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We can see that boss relation has __key__ column (inherited from employee
relation), but when executing above script PostgreSQL fails with message:
psql:script.sql:20: ERROR: there is no unique constraint matching given
keys for referenced table "boss"
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