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Re: foreign keys

Ian Turner <vectro@pipeline.com>

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From: <vectro@pipeline.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: radek.stachowiak@alter.pl, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-08-06T18:46:10Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > Not to mentions fact that in a few places in docs it's shown as a method
> > for copying table "SELECT... INTO" which does not "take" keys with it
> > leading to database knwoledge loss.
> 
> That is a good point.  SELECT INTO doesn't support constraints. 
> Unfortunately, I don't really know a way around that.  The only solution
> is CREATE TABLE and then INSERT INTO ... SELECT.

Argh, that's annoying.

Is there a way to CREATE TABLE, getting the schema from another table? :o

Ian