Re: Cross-table constraints - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: Cross-table constraints
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Msg-id 20030128221313.F4312-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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In response to Cross-table constraints  (Rodger Donaldson <rodgerd@diaspora.gen.nz>)
List pgsql-sql
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Rodger Donaldson wrote:

> > On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Rodger Donaldson wrote:
> >
> > > Now, adding a UNIQUE constraint on the pk for add_queue weeds out
> > > dupes there.  However, attempting to add a cross-table UNIQUE check
> > > with:
> > >
> > > alter table add_queue add constraint add_queue_no_dupe_sites unique
> > > (sites.url);
> > > ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "."
> > >
> > > ,,,fails.  Foreign key constraints will only require a match (of one
> > > sort or another) in the foreign table, according to the postgresql
> 7.2
> > > documentation, and do not have an option to require no match.
> > >
> > > Am I missing something obvious (syntax for UNIQUE, for example), or
> > > trying to do something that just doesn't work that way?
> >
> > I'm not sure what a unique constraint on sites.url on table add_queue
> > is supposed to mean precisely.
>
> Sorry; to clarify, it's table.column notation.

I meant to signify what's the behavior?  Is it different from a unique
constraint on sites(url)?  If so, how?



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