Re: [GENERAL] Unique key with nulls and copying databases across computers

From: Vadim Mikheev <vadim(at)krs(dot)ru>
To: Wim Ceulemans <wim(dot)ceulemans(at)pophost(dot)eunet(dot)be>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Unique key with nulls and copying databases across computers
Date: 1998-08-14 02:07:25
Message-ID: 35D39BDD.319F2518@krs.ru
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Wim Ceulemans wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have a few questions:
>
> 1. Is there a simple way in postgresql 6.3.2 to implement a unique index on
> one
> field with null's allowed. So if the field is null it's ok else the value
> must be unique?

This is exactly what postgresql does!
Did you see any problems?

>
> 2. I have copied the contents of a database ( ../data/base/name/* ) from one
> computer to another computer. Is this in fact the way to copy databases?
> After copying everything works except for example \dt , \di which gives the
> following
> error:
>
> ERROR: cache lookup for userid 1003 failed
>
> What does this mean?

Create user (createuser) with id 1003 in new database.

Vadim

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