On Tuesday 11 February 2003 18:41, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> Can you please demonstrate the syntax you would use to create the
> constraints?  I'm not real clear on this and my attempts haven't
> produced what I wanted.

Checked the docs? They are really good at this point. Anyways.

The following creates Tables A, B and AB. A and B have an id and a text field, 
AB connects them (N:M relation).

create table A (
        id integer not null primary key,
        something varchar(16)
);

create table B (
        id integer not null primary key,
        otherthing varchar(16)
);

create table AB (
        id_a integer not null,
        id_b integer not null,

        constraint pk_AB primary key(id_a, id_b)
);

create unique index u_A_something on A (something);
create unique index u_A_otherthing on B (otherthing);

alter table AB add constraint fk_AB_A_exists foreign key(id_a) references 
A(id);
alter table AB add constraint fk_AB_B_exists foreign key(id_b) references 
B(id);

HTH

Johannes Lochmann

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