Re: disallowing multiple NULLs in a unique constraint - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: disallowing multiple NULLs in a unique constraint
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Msg-id 200405121300.07216.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to disallowing multiple NULLs in a unique constraint  (David Garamond <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com>)
Responses Re: disallowing multiple NULLs in a unique constraint  ("scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>)
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Am Montag, 9. Februar 2004 06:06 schrieb David Garamond:
> SQL Server only allow one NULL in a unique constraint column (it's the
> unique index that does that, so the unique constraint behaves like that
> too). The question is, what is the best way to simulate that behaviour
> in Postgres? Can a CHECK constraint does that? Will a trigger with
> SELECT count(*) ... WHERE f IS NULL be too slow if the table is large?

You can time that yourself (but I suspect it won't be pretty), but I think
that you're going to have all kinds of other problems if you base your
database schema on the assumption that NULL = NULL.  Better fix the
application.

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