>
> create table table1 (
> id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY
> extension UNIQUE,
> <other fields>
> )
>
> create table table2 (
> id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY
> extension UNIQUE,
> <different fields>
> )
>
> Basically table 1 and table 2 both have the concept of an extension
> that must be unique but the rest of the info in the tables are
> different. I need to ensure that if i add an entry to table 1 with
> extension 1000 that it will fail if there is already an entry in
> table2 with the same extension.
use a pre-insert triggers - one for each table. include something like
if exists( select 1 from table2 where extension=new.extension ) then raise exception ...
end if;
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