Re: Range constraint with unique index

Steven Plummer wrote:

> I have a table that has an integer and a int8range.

> What I want is to add a constraint that stops anyone adding

Maybe you want an exclusion constraint:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/ddl-constraints.html#DDL-CONSTRAINTS-EXCLUSION

For example:

CREATE EXTENSION btree_gist ;
CREATE TABLE t1 (c1 INT NOT NULL,
                c2 int8range NOT NULL,
                EXCLUDE USING gist (c1 WITH =, c2 WITH &&));
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (1, '[1,100]');

Now try to insert an overlapping row:

INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (1, '[51,150]');

-Kevin