Re: Bug about 'Foreign Key'

This should be fixed for 7.1, it now checks that the
referencing columns exist on the fk table and that the
referenced columns are part of a unique index
[our unique/pkey] on the referenced table.

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Cid R Andrade wrote:

> PostgreSQL Developers,
>
> I have a PostgreSQL 7.0.2 running at Conectiva Linux, with kernel 2.2.14, with 56 Mb of data.
>
> I'd created a table:
> Create Table Andamento (
> Etiqueta integer not null,
> CodTecnico integer not null,
> DtInicio timestamp not null,
> DtLiberacao timestamp null,
> Primary Key (Etiqueta),
> Foreign Key (Etiquetas) References Etiquetas (Etiqueta) On Delete Cascade)
> I wrong a field name in Foreign Key declaration,
> and PostgreSQL created it! Before this, I always named triggers and
> constraints, but, at this time, I'd tried this way. Well, look the
> trigger at table Etiquetas: CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER "<unnamed>"
> AFTER DELETE ON "etiquetas" NOT DEFERRABLE INITIALLY IMMEDIATE FOR
> EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE "RI_FKey_noaction_del" ('<unnamed>',
> 'andamento', 'etiquetas', 'UNSPECIFIED', 'etiquetas', 'etiqueta');
>
> It says exists a field named etiquetas at table Andamento.
> I'd droped table andamento (Drop Table Andamento) and the trigger referencing it didn't droped.
>
> I solved it with pg_dump.
>