Is something like the following allowed (or is not a Bad Idea)? table1 ---------+------------------------- id1 |serial primary key col2 |int references table2(id2) table2 ---------+------------------------- id2 |serial primary key col2 |int references table1(id1) Obviously, creating the tables is a problem since the constraints require that the other table exists. If doing the above is *not* a Bad Idea, how could I work around this problem? (That is, (how) can I add the constraints after table creation? I imagine something with "create constraint trigger", but the manual is not very clear on that.) Thanks dan