From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Referencing Serial Type as Foreign Key |
Date: | 2005-06-03 17:21:43 |
Message-ID: | 42A091A7.4050802@commandprompt.com |
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Rich Shepard wrote:
> Don't know why I've not come across this before, but I have now.
>
> In a table definition I reference the primary key of another table. That
> key is of datatype SERIAL. In the referencing table, do I define the column
> as
>
> col_name INTEGER REFERENCES other-table (primary_key_field),
>
> or is the datatype SERIAL because that's what the referenced
> primary_key_field is?
Serial is a psuedo type to integer/big (depending on the type of
serial). What you have above should work fine.
SIncerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>
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