index help for uuid datatype - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Gevik Babakhani
Subject index help for uuid datatype
Date
Msg-id 1158424489.10117.15.camel@voyager.truesoftware.net
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Responses Re: index help for uuid datatype  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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I am testing the uuid datatype with unique indexing.
I have the following script to generate a table with uuid types:

create table guid(pk uuid primary key default new_guid(),f1 varchar(38)
);

insert into guid(f1) values('bla bla');
insert into guid(f1) values('bla bla');

insert into guid(f1) select f1 from guid;

-- I repeat the insert above 10 times to get may records.

-- then save the generated guid into the varchar field
update guid set f1=pk;

-- check for duplicates in the varchar field
select f1,count(*) from guid group by f1 having(count(f1) > 1);

-- no duplicates there:
f1 | count
----+-------
(0 rows)

-- and here it comes.........
dev=# create unique index idx1 on guid using btree (pk);
ERROR:  could not create unique index
DETAIL:  Table contains duplicated values.

I must be doing something very wrong.....
Does anyone ever seen such a thing?

Regards,
Gevik.












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