"Zhidian Du" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> CREATE TABLE Link (
>    Protein_ID oid
>    CONSTRAINT one
>    REFERENCES Protein (oid)
>    ON DELETE CASCADE,
>    Link varchar(128)
> );
> When I insert a record into this child table, it says
> "ERROR: constraint one: table protein does not have an attribute oid"

How old is your Postgres?

IIRC, this was made to work in 7.2 or thereabouts.

Note that using OID as a foreign key is not really a good idea, because
it's problematic to dump and restore.  You'd be better off with a serial
column as primary key.

                        regards, tom lane

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