Re: [GENERAL] foreign key

From: "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)lan2wan(dot)com>
To: soundar rajan <psrajan(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] foreign key
Date: 1999-10-27 20:21:24
Message-ID: Pine.BSI.3.91.991027161916.8846M-100000@access1.lan2wan.com
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On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, soundar rajan wrote:

> Can any one please let me know the alternative of
> "foreign key" referential integrity. I'v pg 6.5.2
> under Linux. I'm not able to use the foreign key
> reference. when I say "create table emp (id int, dno
> int foreign key references dept(dno));

Foreign keys are fully implemented yet. You can implement them with a
trigger and the loadable procedure under the contrib directory in the
source distribution. I believe it is under the spi directory there.

Brett W. McCoy
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