Re: Create Table with Foreign Key Error

From: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
To: John Haney <jhaney(at)cox(dot)net>, pgsql-questions(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Create Table with Foreign Key Error
Date: 2004-08-10 22:53:32
Message-ID: 411951EC.70606@bigfoot.com
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John Haney wrote:

| Postgresql 7.4.3-1 under Cygwin.
|
| I created a table called ServerTypes:
|
| CREATE TABLE ServerTypes(
| ServerTypeID SERIAL UNIQUE NOT NULL,
| Type TEXT PRIMARY KEY);
|
| Works fine.
|
| Now, I want to create a table called servers with a Foreign Key
| referencing ServerTypes.Type:
|
| CREATE TABLE Servers(
| ServerID SERIAL UNIQUE NOT NULL,
| Type REFERENCES ServerTypes (Type),
| Server TEXT PRIMARY KEY);

You forgot to specify the data type for the field Type.

Regards
Gaetano Mendola

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