Kai Groner schrieb am 10.02.2015 um 01:38: > Given the following table, I would like to ensure that all the rows for an > email that have a user defined map to the same user. > > CREATE TABLE person ( > id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, > user TEXT, > email TEXT NOT NULL); > > > What I think I'm looking for is something like this: > > CREATE TABLE person ( > id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, > user TEXT, > email TEXT NOT NULL, > EXCLUDE (email WITH =, user WITH <>) > WHERE (user IS NOT NULL)); > > The not equals comparison isn't supported, but it would be useful here. > > Is there another way to do this, short of creating a separate table that > associates email and user?
A partial unique index on (user, email) should do: create unique index on person (email, user) where user is not null; Thomas -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
