On Wednesday 23 Nov 2005 20:03, Patrick Casey wrote:
>             Ok, I admit it, this is probably a stupid question, but I can't
> (curiously) seem to find an answer to this in the SQL spec.
>
>
>
>             Is it legal for a child table (the n side of a 0..n)
> relationship to have a foreign key relationship to *more than one* parent
> table?
>

I can't answer you specifically - but I did a lot of datamodelling in the past 
and with this situation you define that car and family are subclasses of an 
owner entity

Looking at my postgres documentation there is an INHERITS clause in CREATE 
TABLE, which (provided it is single inheritence) seems to be part of the SQL 
standard.

-- 
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
Open Source. It's the difference between trust and antitrust.

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