Re: Help with exclusion constraint - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Moshe Jacobson
Subject Re: Help with exclusion constraint
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In response to Re: Help with exclusion constraint  (Igor Neyman <ineyman@perceptron.com>)
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On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Igor Neyman <ineyman@perceptron.com> wrote:
For this:
"any given value of fk_col that there is a maximum of one row with bool_col = true."

why don't you (instead) create partial unique index:
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX on exclusion_example(fk_col, bool_col) WHERE bool_col IS TRUE;

Ahh yes, why didn't I think of that? Thank you.


Moshe Jacobson
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