It looks like it works here :(. Do you have an error
message?
processdata=# select version();
version
---------------------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 7.1.2 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by
GCC 2.95.4
(1 row)
processdata=# CREATE TABLE category
processdata-# (
processdata(# uid int4 PRIMARY KEY,
processdata(# description text NOT NULL,
processdata(# parent int4 NULL REFERENCES
category(uid)
processdata(# )
processdata-#
processdata-# ;
NOTICE: CREATE TABLE/PRIMARY KEY will create implicit
index 'category_pkey' for table 'category'
NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit trigger(s)
for FOREIGN KEY check(s)
CREATE
--- Jayson Callaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In postgres 7.0.x I had some working code that
> lookes something like:
>
> CREATE TABLE category
> (
> uid int4 PRIMARY KEY,
> description text NOT NULL,
> parent int4 NULL REFERENCES category(uid)
> )
>
> After upgrading to postgres 7.1.2 however this
> syntax is not accepted
> anymore. I receive an error that says it can not
> create the reference
> because the table category does not exist.
>
> How do I setup this type of reference structure in
> 7.1.2? Did the syntax
> change?
>
> I am running under Linux.
> --
> Jayson Callaway
>
>
>
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