Gianvito Pio schrieb:
Hello,
I have 3 tables: persons, operators and persons_position.
This is a semplified examples of their structures:
CREATE TABLE persons
(id varchar NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT "PK_Persons" PRIMARY KEY(id));
CREATE TABLE operators
(id varchar NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT "PK_Operators" PRIMARY KEY(id))
INHERITS(persons);
CREATE TABLE persons_position
(id bigserial NOT NULL,
person varchar NOT NULL);
and then there is a FOREIGN KEY CONSTRAINT from persons_position.person
TO persons.id.
If I insert a tuple in operators...it results also in persons, but when
I insert a tuple in persons_position, it says me I have violated the
foreing key constraints. So it appears that the tuple really ISN'T in
the persons table and the foreing key check fails.
How could I solve it, keeping the inheritance there?
Thanks
Hi,
sure it does throw that error. Your foreign key constraint is wrong. The check will look
like this:
test=# insert into persons_position values(2,'andy');
ERROR: insert or update on table "persons_position" violates foreign key constraint
"persons_position_persons_fkey"
DETAIL: Key (person)=(andy) is not present in table "persons".
You could solve it by altering the table persons:
test=# alter table persons add column person varchar(255);
ALTER TABLE
test=# insert into persons_position values(2,'andy');
INSERT 0 1
Or change the foreign key constraint in persons_position to id (be careful - the datatypes
are different)
Cheers
Andy
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