Bruce Stewart writes:
> Hi Monty and all,
>
> I believe that you are planning to introduce foreign key support in a future
> version of MySQL (I think version 4.0).
>
> Could you consider offering an option to the definition of a foreign key
> which specifies the error message to return if the FK is violated.
> something like:
>
> "ALTER TABLE mytable ADD CONSTRAINT mytable_FK FOREIGN KEY (myfield)
> REFERENCES myothertable (myotherfield) MSG 'A friendly totally customizable
> message'"
>
>
> Thanks,
> Bruce
Foreign keys will not be introduced in 4.0. May be in 4.1 ...
4.0 will have cascading deletes and updates , which provides some of
the functionality of foreign keys.
4.0 will also save FK info, for use in documentation and in programs
that can optimize join queries, like mysqlgui ....
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