yesodweb / yesodweb/persistent

Shared primary key should create a foreign key reference

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Haskell
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Description

Given this schema:

Parent
  name Text

Child
  Id (Key Parent)
  age Int

This should generate a child table SQL like:

CREATE TABLE child (
  id  int primary key references parent(id)
  age int

As it stands, it correctly creates the column type and datatype, but the foreign key does not get made.

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Research direction

Start by locating the schema-generation path for shared primary keys and the code that emits foreign-key references. Reproduce the Parent/Child schema and inspect the generated SQL; done means the child primary-key column also references parent(id) without regressing the existing column type and datatype.

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Assessment

Tech stack
haskell
Domain
databases
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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