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Re: Unique constraint on field inside composite type.

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On 08/22/2016 06:23 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
On 08/17/2016 11:02 PM, Silk Parrot wrote:
CREATE TABLE user (
uuid UUID PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT public.uuid_generate_v4(),
google_user system.google_user,
facebook_user system.facebook_user,
UNIQUE (google_user.email)
);
ERROR:  syntax error at or near "."
LINE 10:     UNIQUE (google_user.email)

Is there a way to create unique constraint on a field inside composite type?

I tried David's suggestion:
(google_user).email
and that did not work, but it got me to thinking, so:

You'd need additional parens around the whole thing, like

create unique index on "user"(((google_user).email));

Aah, I did not bury it deep enough, my attempt:

create unique index g_u on  test_user ((google_user).email));


The UNIQUE-constraint syntax will never work, because per SQL standard
such constraints can only name simple columns.  But you can make
a unique index separately.

			regards, tom lane



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