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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Grzegorz Szpetkowski <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: 5.3.5. Foreign Keys (The SQL Language) possible enhance
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:09:46 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Grzegorz Szpetkowski
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have some remark about
> >
> > "Now it is impossible to create orders with product_no entries that do
> > not appear in the products table."
> >
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/ddl-constraints.html#DDL-CONSTRAINTS-FK
> [...]
> >
> > There is still possibility to add product_no (exactly NULL) value,
> > which does not appear (cannot because of primary key nature) in
> > products table. To get "full solution" you need create orders table as
> >
> > CREATE TABLE orders (
> > ? ?order_id integer PRIMARY KEY,
> > ? ?product_no integer REFERENCES products (product_no) NOT NULL,
> > ? ?quantity integer
> > );
> 
> I don't think we should change the example, but we could probably
> clarify the wording.

Any ideas on how to clarify the wording?

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