Re: Unique Index - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Dann Corbit
Subject Re: Unique Index
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Msg-id D425483C2C5C9F49B5B7A41F89441547055823@postal.corporate.connx.com
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In response to Unique Index  (Alex <alex@meerkatsoft.com>)
Responses Re: Unique Index  (Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>)
Re: Unique Index  (David Garamond <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com>)
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True, but the standard says nothing about the creation of an index, so
you can make it behave in any way that you see fit.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephan Szabo [mailto:sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 4:27 PM
To: Dann Corbit
Cc: vhikida@inreach.com; J. Greenlees; pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Unique Index


On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Dann Corbit wrote:

> Even at that, I think that being able to insert more than one null
value
> into a unique index should be considered as a bug (or diagnosed as an
> error).

AFAICT the UNIQUE constraint that it's used to model explicitly allows
multiple NULLs in the spec so I don't see making it error as being
terribly workable.


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