Re: setting up foreign keys

Spiegelberg, Greg wrote:
> Sort of on topic, how many foreign keys in a single table is good v.
> bad?  I realize it's relative to the tables the FK's reference so here's
> an example:
>
> Table A: 300 rows
> Table B: 15,000,000 rows
> Table C: 100,000 rows
> Table E: 38 rows
> Table F: 9 rows
> Table G: is partitioned on the FK from Table A and has a FK column for
> each of the above tables
>
> I'm in the process of normalizing the database and have a schema like
> this in mind.  Works wonderfully for SELECT's but haven't gotten the
> data import process down just yet so I haven't had a chance to put it
> through it's paces.  Depending on the performance of INSERT, UPDATE, and
> COPY I may drop the FK constraints since my app could enforce the FK
> checks.

As long as both sides of the FK's are indexed I don't think you'll have
a problem with a particular number of FK's per table.

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