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Hallo all,

I have a question about Exclusion constraints in 9.0:
* Lets say I have a table  with two columns X and Y (of type varchar or int)
* Is there any way I can add add an EXCLUDE constraint that says, for each value of X the values of Y must be the same.
* So the following rows are ok:

  X | Y
  ----
  A , 1
  A , 1
  B , 1
  B , 1
  C , 2
  C , 2

But adding 

  A , 3

should fail, as everything with value X = "A" should have the same value as existing data (where Y = 1)

Theoretically the following would be nice if it worked

  EXCLUDE (X WITH =, Y WITH <>)

but it complains that 

  ERROR:  operator <>(text,text) is not a member of operator family "text_ops"

because the Btree index method only allows = in an exclude constraint.  Or am I missing a simpler way of doing this?  (without having to create and then foreign key to another table, which is obviously a possibility)

des.



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