From: Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no>
Organization: OfficeNet AS
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Having elements of an int[]-array reference other tables
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:16:31 +0100
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Hi.
Is it possible in PG to have elements in an int[]-array reference another=20
int-column in another table? What I want is it to behave as a foreign key.

create table master(
my_id integer primary key
);

create table test(
id serial primary key,
id_array integer[] references master(my_id)
);

It would be nice if one could have elements in test.id_array to reference=20
elements in master.my_id, with all the benefits of ON DELETE | UPDATE etc.

I know I can accomplish this with triggers, but if there exists something=20
built-in I'd like to know.

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Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no>
Senior Software Developer / Manager
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