Re: [GENERAL] how to implement a foreign key type constraint against a not unique column

2009-01-21 Thread Richard Broersma
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Brent Wood wrote: > I believe it is possible by using a table with nulls for the -1 values with a > unique index on it as the foreign key, then a view which uses case or > coalesce to present the nulls as -1, but this seems a cumbersome workaround. This will w

[GENERAL] how to implement a foreign key type constraint against a not unique column

2009-01-21 Thread Brent Wood
Hi, I have a table with a column of ID's (integer), these are unique except where they = -1 (column 1) I have a partial unique index where the value is not -1 to enforce this. I want to use this column as a foreign key on a column in another table (column 2), but cannot without a full unique in