Re: [GENERAL] Referencing to system catalog problem

2010-01-24 Thread Davor J.
Thank you Adrian. I apparently missed that post. Guess I will have to come 
up with an different approach.

Adrian Klaver adrian.kla...@gmail.com wrote in message 
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 On Saturday 23 January 2010 6:15:36 am Davor J. wrote:
 I am logged in as superuser. I am trying to create something similar to
 this:


 Code:
 CREATE TABLE tbl_unit_convfunctions(
 unit_from integer REFERENCES tbl_units (unit_id),
 unit_to integer REFERENCES tbl_units (unit_id),
 proc_id oid REFERENCES pg_proc (oid)
 )but no matter what I refer to from pg_proc, i get the error message:

 ERROR: permission denied: pg_proc is a system catalog
 SQL state: 42501

 Has anyone any suggestions how to do something similar, or even better: 
 how
 to solve this error. I couldn't find any useful information on the net
 about this issue.

 Thanks,
 Davor

 Original post:
 http://forums.devshed.com/postgresql-help-21/referencing-to-system-catalog-
problem-670063.html

 Note: OID's are unique in that table, and should be referable, and I
 explicitely granted the REFERENCE priviledge to the superuser.


 You can't have FKs to system tables. See this post for explanation:
 http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2004-12/msg00840.php

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Re: [GENERAL] Referencing to system catalog problem

2010-01-23 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Saturday 23 January 2010 6:15:36 am Davor J. wrote:
 I am logged in as superuser. I am trying to create something similar to
 this:


 Code:
 CREATE TABLE tbl_unit_convfunctions(
 unit_from integer REFERENCES tbl_units (unit_id),
 unit_to integer REFERENCES tbl_units (unit_id),
 proc_id oid REFERENCES pg_proc (oid)
 )but no matter what I refer to from pg_proc, i get the error message:

 ERROR: permission denied: pg_proc is a system catalog
 SQL state: 42501

 Has anyone any suggestions how to do something similar, or even better: how
 to solve this error. I couldn't find any useful information on the net
 about this issue.

 Thanks,
 Davor

 Original post:
 http://forums.devshed.com/postgresql-help-21/referencing-to-system-catalog-
problem-670063.html

 Note: OID's are unique in that table, and should be referable, and I
 explicitely granted the REFERENCE priviledge to the superuser.


You can't have FKs to system tables. See this post for explanation:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2004-12/msg00840.php

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Adrian Klaver
adrian.kla...@gmail.com

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