Re: Cannot Create Foreign Key

That makes sense. Thanks Andreas --Rick

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09/20/2004 10:15 AM

Richard_D_Levine(at)raytheon(dot)com wrote:
> I haven't worked with PostgreSQL much at all yet, but doesn't there need
to
> be a primary key constraint on the emp_address_tb's emp_id column in
order
> to set up the foreign key relation between the two emp_id columns?

Sort of, there has to be a unique index (which a pk by design is).
in a future version (1.3/1.4) we might have some autodetect mechanism
for those columns.

Regards,
Andreas

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