Re: Can arrays reference primary keys in CREATE TABLE?

Jan Wieck wrote:

> Luis Sousa wrote:
>
>> Richard Huxton wrote:
>>
>>> On Friday 09 May 2003 10:21 pm, Filipe Bonjour wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm a rather new SQL user, and I found interesting that you can
>>>> use "references" to make sure that a value inserted in a table is a
>>>> primary key from another table. Something like:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Yep - referential integrity is vital.
>>>
>> I used a trigger to get referential integrity.
>> So, on update or insert, it fires the function that's going to read 
>> the new array and check if really exists on the other table
>
>
> And what happens on UPDATE or DELETE to the primary key table?
>
> You used a trigger to check something, but unless you have a full set of
> said triggers and they do the locking as well, you do not have
> referential integrity.
>
>
> Jan
>
>
I guess you are right.
I'll have to write a trigger for UPDATE or DELETE. How can I do the lock 
only on that record ?

Luis Sousa