subselects in check clauses - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Rasmus Resen Amossen
Subject subselects in check clauses
Date
Msg-id 3B1BF42F.CE6E24EB@rhk.dk
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Responses Re: subselects in check clauses  (Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>)
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I have a need to check if a certain condition holds for all rows that
matches a given criteria. But postgresql appearently doesn't support
subselects in check clauses. Here is an example:

CREATE TABLE example (a int, b date, c date
CONSTRAINT csname CHECK (1 >= ALL (SELECT count(*)
                                   FROM example
                           WHERE age(now(),b) > '0:0'
                                   AND age(now(),c) < '0:0'
                           GROUP BY a)));

CREATE

INSERT INTO example VALUES (0,'2001-3-01','2001-12-12');
ERROR:  ExecEvalExpr: unknown expression type 108

What can I do?
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