On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, craigp wrote: > These create table commands succeed, even tho the foreign key refers to > a 'different' type (int2 product_id column refers to an int8 column): The requirements in recent SQL specs appears to be that the column types are comparable, not the same. SQL2003 11.8 <referential constraint definition> "The declared type of each referencing column shall be comparable to the declared type of the corresponding referenced column." As far as I can tell the spec requires two numbers to be comparable, which would make a failure for numeric or real an actual bug, but I don't have an 8.3 system available at the moment to confirm against. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/