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Drizzle Team•3y ago
Ben Quan

Simple relational query in sqlite

I am trying to follow the documents but using BetterSqlite3.
I have the schema shown in https://orm.drizzle.team/docs/rqb:

import { integer, sqliteTable, text } from 'drizzle-orm/sqlite-core';
import { relations } from 'drizzle-orm';
 
export const users = sqliteTable('users', {
    id: integer('id').primaryKey(),
    name: text('name').notNull(),
});
 
export const usersRelations = relations(users, ({ many }) => ({
    posts: many(posts)
}));
 
export const posts = sqliteTable('posts', {
    id: integer('id').primaryKey(),
    content: text('content').notNull(),
    authorId: integer('author_id').notNull(),
});
 
export const postsRelations = relations(posts, ({ one }) => ({
    author: one(users, { fields: [posts.authorId], references: [users.id] }),
}));
import { integer, sqliteTable, text } from 'drizzle-orm/sqlite-core';
import { relations } from 'drizzle-orm';
 
export const users = sqliteTable('users', {
    id: integer('id').primaryKey(),
    name: text('name').notNull(),
});
 
export const usersRelations = relations(users, ({ many }) => ({
    posts: many(posts)
}));
 
export const posts = sqliteTable('posts', {
    id: integer('id').primaryKey(),
    content: text('content').notNull(),
    authorId: integer('author_id').notNull(),
});
 
export const postsRelations = relations(posts, ({ one }) => ({
    author: one(users, { fields: [posts.authorId], references: [users.id] }),
}));


The first problem I see is that when I run
pnpm drizzle-kit generate:sqlite
pnpm drizzle-kit generate:sqlite
the foreign keys are not generated:

posts 3 columns 0 indexes 0 fks
users 2 columns 0 indexes 0 fks

[✓] Your SQL migration file ➜ drizzle/0000_silly_spitfire.sql 🚀
posts 3 columns 0 indexes 0 fks
users 2 columns 0 indexes 0 fks

[✓] Your SQL migration file ➜ drizzle/0000_silly_spitfire.sql 🚀


What am I missing?
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