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From Sterpu Victor
Subject Unique index problem
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Msg-id em17f49055-156c-40e5-ae9d-252d62bed17d@victor-pc
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Responses Re: Unique index problem  (Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
Re: Unique index problem  (Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@spamfence.net>)
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Hello
 
I created a unique index that doesn't seem to work when one column is NULL.
Index is created like this: CREATE UNIQUE INDEX lab_tests_groups_siui_uni ON lab_tests_groups_siui(id_lab_tests_siui, id_lab_tests_groups, valid_from, id_lab_sample_types);
Now I can run this insert twice and I will have 2 records in the database that seem to violate this index:
INSERT INTO lab_tests_groups_siui(id_lab_tests_siui, id_lab_tests_groups, valid_from) VALUES(463, 9183, '2014-06-01');
 
When I create the index like this "CREATE UNIQUE INDEX lab_tests_groups_siui_uni ON lab_tests_groups_siui(id_lab_tests_siui, id_lab_tests_groups, valid_from);" index works fine.
 
I tested this on postgres 9.1.4 and 9.1.9.
 
Thank you.

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