Re: Nulls Not Distinct in Unique Indexes secton - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: Nulls Not Distinct in Unique Indexes secton
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Msg-id 6f76cd51846f0a8f02df91cc252a7ebcf8c6186f.camel@cybertec.at
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In response to Nulls Not Distinct in Unique Indexes secton  (Kirk Parker <khp@equatoria.us>)
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On Tue, 2023-03-14 at 08:24 -0700, Kirk Parker wrote:
> The Unique Indexes section (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/indexes-unique.html)
> does not mention the new NULLS [ NOT ] DISTINCT capability of indexes
> (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/sql-createindex.html), and it probably should.
>
> Specifically, it has the exact wording from previous versions (emphasis added):
>
>     When an index is declared unique, multiple table
>     rows with equal indexed values are not allowed.
>     *Null values are not considered equal*.
>
> We should consider adding "unless the NULLS NOT DISTINCT clause is used when
> creating the index", or something to that effect.

+1

Here is a patch for that.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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