Re: Dublicates pairs in a table. - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Jean-Luc Lachance
Subject Re: Dublicates pairs in a table.
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Msg-id 3D949425.47649370@nsd.ca
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In response to Dublicates pairs in a table.  ("Ries van Twisk" <ries@jongert.nl>)
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Oh, sorry I missed that. 

Still if C1 and C2 are interchangable, a rule could force C1 <= C2 and
swap them if necessary.


Richard Huxton wrote:
> 
> On Friday 27 Sep 2002 5:17 pm, Jean-Luc Lachance wrote:
> > What's wrong with
> > CREATE UNIQUE INDEX foo_both_uniq ON foo(a,b);
> > ???
> 
> Because he specifically wanted values of ('a','b') and ('b','a') to be treated
> as equivalent (see quote).
> 
> > > >   INSERT INTO test (c1,c2) VALUES('a','c');
> > > >   INSERT INTO test (c1,c2) VALUES('c','a');
> 
> Note Stephen Szabo's observation that I'd missed the obvious need for some
> separator so ('a','ab') is different from ('aa','b') - Doh!
> 
> - Richard Huxton


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