From: Dutt Kalapatapu <dutt@eudoramail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgreSQL.org
Cc: dutt@pacbell.net
Subject: Re: [SQL] Question on Inheritance and Primary Keys.
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 18:30:45 -0700
Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19991011183045.00993a10@pop.eudoramail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10277.939691262@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <Your message of Mon, 11 Oct 1999 12:26:38 -0700 <3.0.6.32.19991011122638.009aa3e0@pop.eudoramail.com>
If I redeclare the Values again, will it overwrite the inherited values?
Thanks for the clarification.
-Dutt
At 09:21 PM 10/11/99 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>Dutt Kalapatapu <dutt@eudoramail.com> writes:
>> I expect from this that when we insert some thing in TableB then
>> parameterone should be unique, but the database is not enforcing the rule
>> and it takes duplicate values.
>
>Constraints and indexes aren't inherited; you have to redeclare them for
>each derived table. I agree this is a bug, or at least lack of a
>feature that ought to be there. It's on the TODO list, in fact:
>
>* Unique index on base column not honored on inserts from inherited table
> INSERT INTO inherit_table (unique_index_col) VALUES (dup) should fail
> [inherit]
>
>I don't know when it might get fixed. None of the currently active
>developers seem to be very interested in inheritance issues, so it
>could be a while before anyone decides to look at this problem.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
--Dutt Kalapatapu
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