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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Cc: Phillip Smith <phillip.smith@weatherbeeta.com.au>
Cc: 'Jon Horsman' <horshaq@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Foreign Unique Constraint
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:08:07 +0200
Message-ID: <200703281108.08697.peter_e@gmx.net> (raw)
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Am Mittwoch, 28. März 2007 00:17 schrieb Phillip Smith:
> Perhaps this...? It would work, but depending how many rows are in the
> table, it could become incredibly slow.
>
> ALTER TABLE table1 ADD CHECK (extension NOT IN (SELECT extension FROM
> table2));

Subqueries are not allowed in check constraints.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/



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