Hi all,

We migrated a database from version 7.3 something to 7.4.7 a while ago, and ever since that time we can't make new foreign keys to a particular table. The problem is that the primary key on that table is on two columns that are unique together, but that only one of them should be referenced from the other table.

Tables are as follows:

CREATE TABLE localization (
        localization_id         text    NOT NULL,
        language_id             integer NOT NULL REFERENCES 
language(language_id) MATCH FULL,
        content                 text    NOT NULL
        PRIMARY KEY (localization_id, language_id)
);

CREATE TABLE description (
        description_id          serial  PRIMARY KEY,
        content                 text    NOT NULL REFERENCES 
localization(localization_id)
);

I'm not sure how we got the "content" column from "description" to reference "localization" back in version 7.3. Fact is, we can't seem to do this anymore since version 7.4:

psql> ALTER TABLE description ADD CONSTRAINT fk_description_content FOREIGN KEY (content) REFERENCES localization(localization_id); ERROR: there is no unique constraint matching given keys for referenced table "localization"

Any way around this?

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