Re: Proposed feature: Selective Foreign Keys

On 12/04/2013 02:40 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>>>> Well I guess we could say something like:
>>>>
>>>> FOREIGN KEY (a-col) WHERE (a-condition) REFERENCES b(b-col) WHERE
>>>> (b-condition)
>>>>
>>>> But it's somewhat ugly.
>> OK, those make sense. I wonder whether this should be done via a USING
>> clause on the constraint that pointed to the partial unique index. Or
>> would that be too obscure?
> I like what you have above. Yeah, it requires the more verbose syntax
> for declaring a foreign key, but this feature is not going to be so
> heavily used that anyone will be in danger of worsening their carpal
> tunnel syndrome.
>
>

Fair enough. I guess in terms of *this* feature TomD would then need to
adjust the location of his WHERE clause so it's before the REFERENCES
clause.

cheers

andrew