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Subject: Re: Constraint check is missing value check ARRAY
From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: eugene.losowskigallagher@googlemail.com, pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2026 23:41:40 +0200
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On Fri, 2026-09-11 at 19:09 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> This page is missing the value check array.
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-constraints.html
>=20
>=20
> Example:
> CREATE TABLE demo
> (
> =C2=A0id bigint NOT NULL DEFAULT nextval('seq_ttelephone_id'::regclass),
> =C2=A0usage character(1) NOT NULL=C2=A0 DEFAULT 'M',
> =C2=A0CONSTRAINT ck_ttelephone_usage_1 CHECK (usage =3D ANY
> (ARRAY['M'::character(1),'H'::character(1),'W'::character(1),'F'::charact=
er(1)]))
> NOT VALID
> )
> );
>=20
> This is entirely missing from the documentation.
>=20
> Key thing to point out is the type cast must match:
> e.g. character(1) for type of character(1) etc

Which aspect of this requires more detailed documentation than already exis=
ts?
Can you be more descriptive?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe