From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: Nikhil Ingale <niks.bgm@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Disable unique constraint in Postgres
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2022 08:46:22 +0100
Message-ID: <41b12ce3422cf41b050bcb359e45cc453d753c8e.camel@cybertec.at> (raw)
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On Fri, 2022-11-25 at 12:48 +0530, Nikhil Ingale wrote:
> We have an alter command to disable any constraints in the oracle db. Similarly do we have any
> command to disable the UNIQUE constraint in postgres. Most of the postgres db forum suggests
> dropping the UNIQUE constraint. But, I don't want to drop the constraint here instead just
> disable the unique constraint.
>
> Need your inputs on the same.
The db forums were right: you cannot disable a unique constraint in PostgreSQL.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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