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From: dev@archonet.com
To: mallah@trade-india.com
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: enforcing with unique indexes..
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:13:12 +0100 (BST)
Message-ID: <49201.192.168.1.32.1033827192.squirrel@mainbox.archonet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200210051219.07553.mallah@trade-india.com>
References: <200210051219.07553.mallah@trade-india.com>

>
> ie i want 1 to 1 mapping between group_id and userid so that , there
> shud not be a  single group_id having more that one kind of userid.
>
> can it be done with some sort of UNIQUE INDEX?

If you want multiple groups but the user should always be the same

1  1  ok
1  1  ok
2  1  ok
3  2  ok
3  3  bad

Perhaps you should normalise a bit further with a separate group_user
table - you could restrict that to being unique on group then.

- Richard Huxton





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