From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>
To: Paul Lambert <paul.lambert@autoledgers.com.au>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-sql <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Quick question re foreign keys.
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:27:05 -0400
Message-ID: <20071024012705.5f253946.darcy@druid.net> (raw)
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On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:00:47 +0800
Paul Lambert <paul.lambert@autoledgers.com.au> wrote:
> It's marked not null as a result of being part of the primary key for
> that table which I can't really get around.
>
> I can get away with not having the foreign key though, so I'll have to
> go down that path.
It can't be the primary key and have NULLs. It sounds to me like you
have a design problem somewhere.
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