Re: Deleted Flag/Unique Constraint

From: "Bryan Murphy" <bryan(dot)murphy(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Jonathan Hedstrom" <jhedstrom(at)desc(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Deleted Flag/Unique Constraint
Date: 2007-03-30 00:26:51
Message-ID: bd8531800703291726t25f80f78x4f16d6c21b4472c@mail.gmail.com
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Thanks! That works great!

Bryan

On 3/29/07, Jonathan Hedstrom <jhedstrom(at)desc(dot)org> wrote:
>
> Bryan Murphy wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to declare a unique constraint in combination with a
> > deleted flag?
> >
> > For example, if I have a table like this:
> >
> > CREATE TABLE
> > (
> > ID NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
> > Key VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL,
> > Value VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL,
> > Deleted INT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0
> > );
> >
> > can I declare a unique constraint that only checks Key and Value when
> > Deleted = 0?
>
> Yes, something like this:
>
> CREATE UNIQUE INDEX index_name ON table_name ( unique_field) WHERE
> deleted=0;
>
> -Jonathan
>

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