From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: Kevin Houle <kevin@houle.org>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Dublicates pairs in a table.
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:54:54 +0100
Message-ID: <200209271354.54187.dev@archonet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D910CEB.30704@houle.org>
References: <000201c25d90$87230c10$6500000a@IT000>
<3D910CEB.30704@houle.org>
On Wednesday 25 Sep 2002 2:10 am, Kevin Houle wrote:
> I have the same issue with a table that currently holds well
> over 600,000 rows. The case you left out is this:
>
> INSERT INTO test (c1,c2) VALUES('a','c');
> INSERT INTO test (c1,c2) VALUES('c','a');
>
> I want that to fail, but I haven't been able to get it to fail
> using unique indexes. I presume ordering is significant. Instead,
> I am doing a SELECT prior to insert to insure the pair doesn't
> already exist. If you've been able to get order-independent
> pairs restricted to being unique using indexes, I'd like to know
> about it. :-)
Functional indexes sir - define a function that puts the columns into a sorted
order.
richardh=> CREATE TABLE foo (a text, b text);
CREATE
richardh=> CREATE UNIQUE INDEX foo_both_uniq ON foo ( ord_fn(a,b) );
ERROR: DefineIndex: index function must be marked iscachable
richardh=> \i ordfn.txt
DROP
CREATE
richardh=> CREATE UNIQUE INDEX foo_both_uniq ON foo ( ord_fn(a,b) );
CREATE
richardh=> insert into foo values ('aa','bb');
INSERT 332596 1
richardh=> insert into foo values ('aa','cc');
INSERT 332597 1
richardh=> insert into foo values ('bb','aa');
ERROR: Cannot insert a duplicate key into unique index foo_both_uniq
richardh=> insert into foo values ('aa','bb');
ERROR: Cannot insert a duplicate key into unique index foo_both_uniq
Function defined as:
CREATE FUNCTION ord_fn (text,text) RETURNS text AS '
SELECT (CASE
WHEN $1 < $2
THEN $1 || $2
ELSE $2 || $1
END) as t;
' LANGUAGE SQL WITH (iscachable);
--
Richard Huxton
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