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Re: SQLite3 in Python 2.7 Rejecting Foreign Key Insert

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On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 1:22 PM, llanitedave
<llanitedave@birdandflower.com> wrote:
> I recreated the table and put the foreign key reference directly into the field definition:
>
> "of_borehole TEXT NOT NULL REFERENCES borehole,"
>
> This is a valid alternative according to the SQLite3 docs, if you don't explicitly define the field name then it references to the primary key that already exists in the referenced table.
>
> And that's all I had to do.  Strange, but it did the trick.

That's also perfectly valid according to the SQL spec. I prefer to put
the foreign key up there where possible (obviously it's not possible
with a multi-column FK, but those aren't common). Strange that the
other form doesn't work.

ChrisA

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SQLite3 in Python 2.7 Rejecting Foreign Key Insert llanitedave <llanitedave@birdandflower.com> - 2014-11-22 18:11 -0800
  Re: SQLite3 in Python 2.7 Rejecting Foreign Key Insert Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-23 13:22 +1100
    Re: SQLite3 in Python 2.7 Rejecting Foreign Key Insert llanitedave <llanitedave@birdandflower.com> - 2014-11-22 19:54 -0800
      Re: SQLite3 in Python 2.7 Rejecting Foreign Key Insert Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-11-22 21:58 -0700
      Re: SQLite3 in Python 2.7 Rejecting Foreign Key Insert Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-23 16:41 +1100
        Re: SQLite3 in Python 2.7 Rejecting Foreign Key Insert llanitedave <llanitedave@birdandflower.com> - 2014-11-22 22:08 -0800
          Re: SQLite3 in Python 2.7 Rejecting Foreign Key Insert Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-23 17:32 +1100
            Re: SQLite3 in Python 2.7 Rejecting Foreign Key Insert llanitedave <llanitedave@birdandflower.com> - 2014-11-22 22:46 -0800
            Re: SQLite3 in Python 2.7 Rejecting Foreign Key Insert Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2014-11-23 10:55 +0100
          Re: SQLite3 in Python 2.7 Rejecting Foreign Key Insert "Frank Millman" <frank@chagford.com> - 2014-11-23 10:21 +0200
            Re: SQLite3 in Python 2.7 Rejecting Foreign Key Insert llanitedave <llanitedave@birdandflower.com> - 2014-11-23 17:29 -0800
          Re: SQLite3 in Python 2.7 Rejecting Foreign Key Insert Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-23 19:31 +1100
            Re: SQLite3 in Python 2.7 Rejecting Foreign Key Insert Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2014-11-23 11:40 +0200
              Re: SQLite3 in Python 2.7 Rejecting Foreign Key Insert Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-23 20:53 +1100
          Re: SQLite3 in Python 2.7 Rejecting Foreign Key Insert Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-11-23 13:01 -0500
          Re: SQLite3 in Python 2.7 Rejecting Foreign Key Insert "Frank Millman" <frank@chagford.com> - 2014-11-24 10:05 +0200
          Re: SQLite3 in Python 2.7 Rejecting Foreign Key Insert Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-11-24 13:44 -0500
          Re: SQLite3 in Python 2.7 Rejecting Foreign Key Insert Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-25 10:17 +1100
          Re: SQLite3 in Python 2.7 Rejecting Foreign Key Insert "Frank Millman" <frank@chagford.com> - 2014-11-25 07:31 +0200
          Re: SQLite3 in Python 2.7 Rejecting Foreign Key Insert Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-25 17:40 +1100
  Re: SQLite3 in Python 2.7 Rejecting Foreign Key Insert Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-11-23 11:58 -0500
  Re: SQLite3 in Python 2.7 Rejecting Foreign Key Insert llanitedave <llanitedave@birdandflower.com> - 2014-11-23 18:22 -0800
    Re: SQLite3 in Python 2.7 Rejecting Foreign Key Insert Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-24 15:49 +1100

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