Subject Re: [firebird-support] Foreign key different field type
Author Svein Erling Tysvær
Well, I would hope that

create procedure ...
declare variable i2 TYPE OF COLUMN test2.id1;
declare variable i TYPE OF COLUMN test.id;
begin
  i2 = 12345678;
  i = 12345678;
...

would complain about the assignment to i and not i2.

Although I agree with you that it sounds rather useless to allow foreign keys to be of a type that is a superset, it also sounds rather harmless (if properly implemented). Does the SQL standard say anything about this?

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