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Self referencing foreign keys unsupported #170

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@benkilimnik

Encountered in the sample application schema for commento located in experiments/schema-annot/annotated/commento-annotated.sql

In the table comments we would like to have a self referencing foreign key on the column parentHex with ACCESSED_BY to support deletion of the row when the parent comment given by parentHex is deleted.

CREATE TABLE comments ( \
  commentHex TEXT NOT NULL UNIQUE PRIMARY KEY, \
  domain TEXT NOT NULL, \
  path TEXT NOT NULL, \
  commenterHex TEXT NOT NULL, \
  parentHex TEXT NOT NULL, \
  score INTEGER NOT NULL, \
  state TEXT NOT NULL, \
  FOREIGN KEY (commenterHex) OWNED_BY commenters(commenterHex), \
  FOREIGN KEY (domain) ACCESSED_BY domains(domain), \
  ON DEL parentHex DELETE_ROW, \
  FOREIGN KEY (parentHex) ACCESSED_BY comments(parentHex), \ -- > throws error
  ON GET parentHex ANON (commenterHex, score, state), \
  ON GET domain ANON (commenterHex, score, state) \
);

K9db throws this error:

INVALID_ARGUMENT: FK points to nonexisting table

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