serial as FK ?

From: Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
To: Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: dev(at)archonet(dot)com
Subject: serial as FK ?
Date: 2005-02-28 09:26:06
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.62.0502281221300.18315@ra.sai.msu.su
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Hi there,

what's wrong to use SERIAL as FK without explicit PRIMARY KEY or UNIQUE ?

qq=# create table t1( id serial);
NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "t1_id_seq" for "serial" column "t1.id"
CREATE TABLE
qq=# create table t2( id2 int4 references t1(id));
ERROR: there is no unique constraint matching given keys for referenced table "t1"

btw, Richard, I noticed this problem when looked into your example database
http://www.archonet.com/pgdocs/chap-exdb.html#EXAMPLE-TABLES

Regards,
Oleg
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