Received: from localhost.localdomain (postgresql.org [64.49.215.8]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8E22476D04 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 14:09:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pony (office.weilpublishing.com [207.5.188.53]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3C8E4767F9 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 13:35:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 16624 invoked from network); 14 Jun 2002 17:35:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO weilpublishing.com) ([192.168.1.61]) (envelope-sender ) by 192.168.2.2 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 14 Jun 2002 17:35:39 -0000 Message-ID: <3D0A29FA.8090904@weilpublishing.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 13:38:02 -0400 From: Matt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020412 Debian/0.9.9-6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: inheritance problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archive-Number: 200206/211 X-Sequence-Number: 8176 I have a parent with two columns, the primary key; several children inherit these columns. I can see all the childrens primary keys in the parent. however I can't reference data in the parent table that was entered into a child. I get a referential integrity violation. why is this? is there any way to change this behaviour. the purpose of haveing the parent was so that I could see the rows of two table in one place so that another table could indirectly reference the two of them. but this doesn't seem to behave the way it apears it should. Thank you very much for considering my problem, any help would be greatly apreciated