Re: [GENERAL] Foreign keys/unique values and views

2001-03-22 Thread Einar Karttunen
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Richard Huxton wrote: I have to admit I've never tried referencing a view with a foreign key. I don't know if it's possible and I have to admit the idea makes me uncomfortable. Can't give a good reason why, but I'd apply constraints at the table level. if one can

Re: [GENERAL] Foreign keys/unique values and views

2001-03-22 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 06:33:16PM -0500, Jan Wieck wrote: Einar Karttunen wrote: How do you put a UNIQUE constraint on the entire inheritance hierarchie? Easy. You make a unique index that covers an entire inheritance hierarchy. If lots of table inherit a field "id" from a single