From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Gauri Kanekar <meetgaurikanekar@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Partitioned Tables Foreign Key Constraints Problem
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:31:55 -0700
Message-ID: <488A545B.4070609@agliodbs.com> (raw)
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Gauri,
> How can we define the Foreign_key constraint on "other_tbl" based upon
> any partitioned table field.
Currently PostgreSQL doesn't have any simple way to support this. There
are a few workarounds, but they're fairly awkward, such as a trigger to
check if the ID is correct.
--Josh
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