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I remember reading somewhere that the recent version of InstantDB, supports
only the REFERENCES syntax of foreign key. 

-Lalitha
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	James Medlock [SMTP:jmedlock@tenornetworks.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, September 19, 2000 8:24 AM
> To:	instantdb@enhydra.org
> Subject:	InstantDB: Foreign Key syntax problem
> 
> I get an SQL syntax error when I use a foreign key table contraint. Is
> this a known problem or am I doing something wrong?
> 
> create table BAR (
>         ID      int
> );
> 
> create table FOO (
>         ID      int,
>         NAME    CHAR(32)
> )
> foreign key (ID) references BAR(ID) on delete cascade;
> 
> This causes the following exception:
> 
> java.sql.SQLException: create table FOO (  ID    int,  NAME
> char(32))foreign key (ID) references BAR(ID) on delete cascade
>  Don't understand SQL after: "on"
>  Expected: "null" found: "on"
>         at java.lang.Throwable.fillInStackTrace(Native Method)
>         at java.lang.Throwable.fillInStackTrace(Compiled Code)
>         at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Compiled Code)
>         at java.lang.Exception.<init>(Exception.java:42)
>         at java.sql.SQLException.<init>(SQLException.java:82)
>         at org.enhydra.instantdb.db.SQLProg.execute(SQLProg.java:215)
>         at org.enhydra.instantdb.jdbc.idbStatement.execute(Compiled Code)
>         at
> org.enhydra.instantdb.jdbc.idbStatement.executeUpdate(idbStatement.java:10
> 3)
>         at org.enhydra.instantdb.SampleThread.run(Compiled Code)
>         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:479)
> 
> Either removing the "on delete cascade" or attaching the constraint to the
> column does work.
> 
> Thanks
> James
> 
>         
> 
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