Re: Primary and Foreign Key?

In relational databases  A table can have at most one primary key.  However,
you are not required to have a primary key, so I would just have the two
foreign keys in the table PEOPLEGROUPS.

For more information on Constraints see
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/ddl-constraints.html

Wayne Unruh

From :     A. Banks <abanks@insightbb.com>
Sent :     Wednesday, September 21, 2005 8:46 PM
To :     <pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>
Subject :     [NOVICE] Primary and Foreign Key?



I have the following related tables:

PEOPLE
--------------
peopleid pkey,
name,
etc


GROUPS
-------------
groupid pkey,
description,
etc


PEOPLEGROUPS
-------------------
peopleid pkey/fkey,
groupid pkey/fkey


What is the CORRECT way (in Postgres) to define the PEOPLEGROUPS table so
that it has both the double primary key AND still acts as a foreign key for
people.peopleid and groups.groupid? Can i specify both or is this not
necessary? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks!