Setting up Field constraints - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joseph Maxwell
Subject Setting up Field constraints
Date
Msg-id 3C86AB7D.104CD2BE@jaymax.com
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Responses Re: Setting up Field constraints  (Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>)
Re: Setting up Field constraints  (Jeff Self <jself@nngov.com>)
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Hello,
I have created a DB and TABLE but would like to constrain one field to
accept either "YES" or "NO" only. How can I set this up?
I have tried various syntactic constructs of

     Prior_Rx   varchar(3) NULL CHECK ('Yes', 'No'),
     Prior_Rx   varchar(3) NULL CHECK (VALUE 'Yes', 'No'),
     Prior_Rx   varchar(3) NULL CHECK ('Yes', 'No'),
     Prior_Rx   varchar(3) NULL CONSTRAINT (CHECK (VALUE 'Yes', 'No')),
     Prior_Rx   varchar(3) NULL CONSTRAINT (CHECK ('Yes', 'No')),
     Prior_Rx   varchar(3) NULL CONSTRAINT (CHECK (VALUE Yes, No)),
     Prior_Rx   varchar(3) NULL CONSTRAINT (CHECK (Yes, No)),
     Prior_Rx   varchar(3) NULL CONSTRAINT (CHECK (Yes OR No)),
     Prior_Rx   varchar(3) NULL CHECK (Yes OR No),
     Prior_Rx   varchar(3) NULL CHECK ('Yes' OR 'No'),

Obviously they were all wrong, could someone advise?
Thanks

--  Joe  --
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PS:
Just learned that the datatype should be 'bool' in this case

     haven't tested it yet

But had I wanted to restrict it to say either mike or john, or even one
of a list say, 'tea', 'coffee', 'chocolate' or 'espresso', how should
that be constructed?

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