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From David G. Johnston
Subject Re: Need to check each element of an array satisfies a foreign key constraint
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On Tuesday, July 13, 2021, David Gauthier <davegauthierpg@gmail.com> wrote:

I suppose I could write a stored procedure to do this and call it in a check constraint. But I was wondering if there is something more elegant.


You cannot use a check constraint here as the behavior is not immutable.  You can use a trigger function though.  Or normalize the table and use the built-it foreign key triggers.

David J.
 

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