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From: Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: problem with foreign key
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:22:22 -0400
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Please do not top-post.

Bèrto ëd Sèra wrote:
>> An immediate question: did you check that Key (docuuserid)=(8415) is
>> actually present in table "trade"?

Ljubomir Erdeljan wrote:
 >   This relate to different column names
 > docuuserid is column in porder1 but relate to tradeid in trade.

You missed the point.  Did you check that the key is present in "trade"?

IOW, is there a row in "trade" with "tradeid" equal to 8415?  If not, you 
cannot create the foreign key because the item in "porder1" cannot point to it.

-- 
Lew



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