On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 11:57:08AM +0200,
Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote
a message of 49 lines which said:
> I have 240 countries in the database. Because of a programming error,
> contacts were entered with a country > 240. I thought that the
> "REFERENCES Countries (id)" should have prevented it. Is it because of
> inheritance?
Yes, it is even documented :-(
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/ddl-inherit.html
I agree with the comments at the end. Having, as a workaround, to add
a FOREIGN KEY REFERENCES to every child table defeats a lot of the
purpose of inheritance.
It does not seem to be better in 8.0:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/ddl-inherit.html