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From: Bruno Wolff III <[email protected]>
To: Erik Thiele <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: special integrity constraints
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 05:26:04 -0600
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 10:20:31 +0100,
  Erik Thiele <[email protected]> wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i have two tables
> 
> create table a (x integer);
> create table b (y real);
> 
> i have the special constraint that the sum of the number of rows in
> table a plus the number of rows in table b must be even.

Does the above mean that the number of rows in a is equal to the number
of rows in b or that their sum is divisible by 2?

> so there is a posibility of adding one element to a and one element to
> b, and again the constraint is met.
> 
> but this of course does not work, since between adding the element to a
> and adding the element to b, the constraint is not met.
> 
> so i cannot use a trigger.
> 
> what i need is the execution of a check procedure at commit time. is
> that somehow possible?

Do the real tables have candidate keys? If so you can use foreign key
references to pair a row in a to a row b (though I am not sure this
is what your real constraint is).

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