UNIQUE columnt depdening on other column??? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Andrei Bintintan
Subject UNIQUE columnt depdening on other column???
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Msg-id 20040602113937.D45E11765F@ar-sd.net
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Responses Re: UNIQUE columnt depdening on other column???  (Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>)
Re: UNIQUE columnt depdening on other column???  (Reinoud van Leeuwen <reinoud.v@n.leeuwen.net>)
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Hi,
 
I have a problem.
 
Let's say I have the following table:

CREATE TABLE rekl_element(
id serial PRIMARY KEY,
active boolean NOT NULL DEFAULT 'y'
,
num int4 NOT NULL,
text varchar(10)

);

Now I want that "num" column is "unique" but only for those columns that have active='y'. For the columns that have active='f' I don't care if num is unique or not. I'm asking this because num will be doubled some times.
 
How can I write a constraint, trigger function... etc to check this?
Thanks in advance.
Andy.

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