Re: UNIQUE not unique with inheritance (workaround?)

Or create a sequence, and make each table in the inheritance hierarchy
use the same sequence as it's default value.

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Oliver Elphick wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 19:34, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> > Is there any workaround for this problem? I'm getting involved in a
> > project where inheritance is an incredibly useful feature, but the
> > non-unique issue could be a serious stumbling block. Is there any way
> > to work around it with a trigger or something?
>
> Give each table in the hierarchy a foreign key reference to another
> table which holds a unique list of the primary keys and a column that
> says which table they are in. Use triggers to update this other table
> and to prevent duplications in the hierarchy.
>
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