ries van Twisk wrote: > hey All, > > (Resend from novice) > > I if a problem that apparently I can insert a record into my table with > a constrain while in fact the reference doesn't exist: Well, a test case is what's really needed, but while you're busy with that the obvious points are: 1. Your constraint looks ok in so far as I can tell. 2. You've said you have not-null on both columns, so that can be ruled out. That leaves: 3. Bug in 8.3.1 - might be worth checking the release notes in the manuals. 4. Corrupted database - in particular one of the indexes that might be used to check the constraint. That seems most likely given that a dump/restore fails where you'd expect it to. You could try a REINDEX on both tables and see if that corrects the situation. Then, check your hardware and make sure you're not running with fsync off or have a disk-cache lying to you about syncing. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general