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From: Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Check/unique constraint question
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 11:29:42 +0100
Message-ID: <20060305102942.GA7051@merkur.hilbert.loc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e431ff4c0603050102m36b68e08w9d84e52e1f8701cb@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 12:02:58PM +0300, Nikolay Samokhvalov wrote:

> Unfortunately, at the moment Postgres doesn't support subqueries in
> CHECK constraints, so it's seems that you should use trigger to check
> what you need
The OP could also use a check constraint with a function if
everything (the context) but the value to check is known
beforehand or can be derived from it.

Karsten
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