Re: Single Row Table? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: Single Row Table?
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Msg-id 20040829213044.GA15047@wolff.to
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In response to Single Row Table?  ("Yateen Joshi" <yjoshi@starentnetworks.com>)
Responses Re: Single Row Table?  ("Scott Marlowe" <smarlowe@qwest.net>)
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On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 13:32:07 +0530,
  Yateen Joshi <yjoshi@starentnetworks.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have got a table which is supposed to contain only one row. It does
> not have any primary keys defined.
> So, essentially, when a new insert happens in that table, I would like
> it (the insert) to fail if there is already a row existing in that
> table.
> How can I do that? Can I add any constraints? Or do I need to write a
> separate trigger for the same?

A simple way to force this is to add a primary key and a constraint
that forces the primary key to be a particular value.

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