Re: [GENERAL] Inheritance foreign key unexpected behaviour

2007-10-22 Thread Scott Ribe
PostgreSQL foreign keys won't enforce restrictions the way you want them to; you'll have to use a trigger. And at that point, you might as well consider alternative designs... -- Scott Ribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.killerbytes.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice ---(end of br

Re: [GENERAL] Inheritance foreign key unexpected behaviour

2007-10-21 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 10/20/07, M. van Egmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Im trying to use table inheritance in my database. I need it because i want > to be able to link any object in the database to another. So i created a > table my_object which has a serial, nothing more. All the other tables in > th