Re: Constraint Problem - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ron St-Pierre
Subject Re: Constraint Problem
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Msg-id 3FA69FEA.2070405@syscor.com
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In response to Re: Constraint Problem  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Constraint Problem  ("scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>)
Re: Constraint Problem  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
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Tom Lane wrote:

>Ron St-Pierre <rstpierre@syscor.com> writes:
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>>I just want to constrain the ysnDefault field to only allow one TRUE
>>value for any companyID/associationID pair, with no restrictions on the
>>number of FALSES.
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>You could do that with a partial unique index.  There is an example
>at the bottom of
>http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/indexes-partial.html
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This is not quite what I need. I need to create a constraint to allow
only -one- of
    company<->association<->default(=true) value
but any number of
    company<->association<->default(=false) values

I've tried many different ALTER TABLE ... CREATE CONSTRAINT variations,
all without success.

Anyone know how?

Thanks
Ron


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