You can still use foreign keys, just that it has no effect in mysql.
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From: "Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 4:45
Subject: Foreign keys just for table metadata?
> Hi,
>
> In the current app I'm writing, it would be very useful if I could
> store the information that a column references another table (my SQL
> generation is automated), eg
>
> CREATE TABLE foo (
> ...
> tel1 INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
> tel2 INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
>
> foreign key (tel1) references telefone,
> foreign key (tel2) references telefone
> )
>
> and later retrieve this info via Perl DBI. Failing that, I will have
> to store just the foreign key definitions elsewhere (which is a bit
> annoying).
>
> >From the manual, I'm afraid it isn't possible. Is it really so?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Adriano
>
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