foreign key to foreign table

Started by Kaye Ann Ignacioover 7 years ago2 messages
#1Kaye Ann Ignacio
kaye.ignacio@proceedit.com

Hi,

I have a foreign table created with postgres_fdw and with that, I tried to
create a local table to reference the foreign table in order to set a
foreign key constraint in my local table but I get an error message saying
that the referenced table is not a table. Is there a way I can reference a
foreign table?

Thank you.

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#2Ashutosh Bapat
ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com
In reply to: Kaye Ann Ignacio (#1)
Re: foreign key to foreign table

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 12:13 PM, Kaye Ann Ignacio
<kaye.ignacio@proceedit.com> wrote:

Hi,

I have a foreign table created with postgres_fdw and with that, I tried to
create a local table to reference the foreign table in order to set a
foreign key constraint in my local table but I get an error message saying
that the referenced table is not a table. Is there a way I can reference a
foreign table?

I don't think so. Since the data in a foreign table resides on a
foreign server and can be manipulated without local server knowing
about it, it's very possible that those foreign key constraints will
become invalid without local server knowing about them.

This looks like a question for general mailing list to me.
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Ashutosh Bapat
EnterpriseDB Corporation
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