Re: [GENERAL] Primary key inheritance problem

2004-08-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 18:07, Matthew M Davis wrote: > On Sunday 29 August at 12:34pm, Oliver Elphick had this to say: > > > Primary and foreign key constraints are not inherited. This is a defect > > in the current system. > > It almost seems like a FEATURE to me, since it creates a different an

Re: [GENERAL] Primary key inheritance problem

2004-08-29 Thread Matthew M Davis
On Sunday 29 August at 12:34pm, Oliver Elphick had this to say: > Primary and foreign key constraints are not inherited. This is a defect > in the current system. It almost seems like a FEATURE to me, since it creates a different and easy way to create one-to-many relationships. But I didn't us

Re: [GENERAL] Primary key inheritance problem

2004-08-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 11:58, Bruno Baguette wrote: > Hello, > > I've a strange problem with inheritance on PostgreSQL 7.4.1. It seems > like tables don't inherits the primary key of the 'mother' table. ... > The error I get is : > ERROR: there is no unique constraint matching given keys for refe

Re: [GENERAL] Primary key inheritance problem

2004-08-29 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Bruno Baguette wrote: > Hello, > > I've a strange problem with inheritance on PostgreSQL 7.4.1. It seems > like tables don't inherits the primary key of the 'mother' table. > Here's a little sample to show my problem : > > CREATE TABLE foo_a > ( > pk_idmyfoo INT2 PRIM

[GENERAL] Primary key inheritance problem

2004-08-29 Thread Bruno Baguette
Hello, I've a strange problem with inheritance on PostgreSQL 7.4.1. It seems like tables don't inherits the primary key of the 'mother' table. Here's a little sample to show my problem : CREATE TABLE foo_a ( pk_idmyfoo INT2 PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL, myfoo_name VARCHAR(10) ); CREATE TABL