RE: Foreign keys and being FIRST index

2003-03-06 Thread Keith C. Ivey
On 5 Mar 2003, at 19:39, Daevid Vincent wrote: > Right, but sometimes it isn't, or you already used up that 'first' > spot for a different foreign key reference in another table. I think you're misunderstanding something. In the subject line you talk about the first index, and talking about usi

Re: Foreign keys and being FIRST index

2003-03-06 Thread William R. Mussatto
> http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/SEC457.html states that "there must be an > index where the foreign key and the referenced key are listed as the > FIRST columns." Will this restriction be lifted soon? It is incredibly > frustrating. I don't see why they have to be indexes, and more > importantly, I d

Re: Foreign keys and being FIRST index

2003-03-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 05), Daevid Vincent said: > > I'm not sure that sentence means what you think it does. What > > they're saying is you need to index both fields, and if you decide > > to make that index a compound one with multiple keyparts, the > > foreign/referenced field must be the fir

RE: Foreign keys and being FIRST index

2003-03-05 Thread Daevid Vincent
> In the last episode (Mar 05), Daevid Vincent said: > > http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/SEC457.html states that "there > must be an > > index where the foreign key and the referenced key are listed as the > > FIRST columns." Will this restriction be lifted soon? It is > > incredibly frustrating. I do

Re: Foreign keys and being FIRST index

2003-03-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 05), Daevid Vincent said: > http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/SEC457.html states that "there must be an > index where the foreign key and the referenced key are listed as the > FIRST columns." Will this restriction be lifted soon? It is > incredibly frustrating. I don't see why t