Re: Multicolumn primary keys and multicolumn foreign keys

On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Ferruccio Zamuner wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've found a trouble and I've tried to avoid it without success:
>
> -------
> create table companies (
> id serial not null primary key,
> firm_name text not null,
> activity text
> );
>
> create table customers (
> id int not null references companies,
> seller_id int not null references companies,
> note text,
> primary key (id,seller_id)
> );
>
> create table invoices (
> seller_id int4 not null references companies, /* who send invoice
> */
> customer_id int4 not null, /* who receive the invoice and pay
> for it */
> invoice_no int4 not null unique,
> invoice_date date,
>
> primary key (seller_id,invoice_no,invoice_date),
> foreign key (seller_id, customer_id) references customers
> );
>
> INSERT INTO "companies" ("firm_name","activity") VALUES
> ('NonSoLoSoft','ASP');
> INSERT INTO "companies" ("firm_name","activity") VALUES
> ('MyFavouriteCustomer','Buy and pay');
> INSERT INTO "customers" ("id","seller_id","note") VALUES (2,1,'customer
> since 1966');
>
> INSERT INTO "invoices" (seller_id,customer_id,invoice_no,invoice_date)
> values (1,2,1,'now');
>
> ERROR: <unnamed> referential integrity violation - key referenced from
> invoices not found in customers
>
> select * from customers;
> id | seller_id | note
> ----+-----------+---------------------
> 2 | 1 | customer since 1816
> (1 row)
>
> -------
>
> Why have I found this ERROR about referential integrity violation, if
> the record to reference is
> in the customer table?
>
> Thank you in advance, \fer
>
>

there's something wrong with ur foreign key statement, take note ur table
customers has primarykey (id,sellers_id)<< take note the order of the
fields, so ur foreignkey must be foreignkey(customer_id,seller_id) and not
foreignkey(seller_id,customer_id)

regards

richard