Re: Unique cosntraint based on contents of a field? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jaime Casanova
Subject Re: Unique cosntraint based on contents of a field?
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In response to Unique cosntraint based on contents of a field?  (Warren Bell <warrenbell2@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Warren Bell <warrenbell2@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to create a unique constraint based on the content of a
> field? For instance, say you have an integer field where you only want one
> record with the number 1 in that field but there can be many records with
> say the number 2 or any other single number in that field.
>

create unique index unique_field_idx
on table1(field)
where field = 1;

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Atentamente,
Jaime Casanova
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