Re: Add Foreign Keys To Table - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alan Hodgson
Subject Re: Add Foreign Keys To Table
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Msg-id 201107071119.56980.ahodgson@simkin.ca
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In response to Add Foreign Keys To Table  (Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>)
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On July 7, 2011 10:40:11 AM Rich Shepard wrote:
> alter table station_information add column sta_type varchar(50)
> unique not null references station_type(sta_type);
> NOTICE:  ALTER TABLE / ADD UNIQUE will create implicit index
> "station_information_sta_type_key" for table "station_information"
> ERROR:  there is no unique constraint matching given keys for referenced
> table "station_type"
>    Reading the alter table document page for 9.x does not show me what I'm
> doing incorrectly.

You need a unique index on station_type.sta_type


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