On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Jim Nasby <jim.na...@bluetreble.com> wrote:
> On 4/1/16 1:08 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > >> Jim Nasby <jim.na...@bluetreble.com> writes: >> >>> Rather than this, I think an exclusive-or operator would be a lot more >>> useful. The only difficulty I run into with CHECK constaints is when I >>> want to ensure that only ONE condition is true. >>> >> >> "bool != bool" works as XOR. If you need "exactly one of N" you could >> do something like "(cond1::int + cond2::int + ...) = 1". We could >> wrap some syntactic sugar around either of these, but it's not clear >> to me that it'd be any more useful than a custom SQL function. >> > > It would prevent having to re-create that function every time... :) And it would nicely complement our recent addition of " num_nonnulls (variadic "any")" David J.
