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Re: Thoughts on a cosntraint ?

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On Sep 29, 2019, at 1:52 PM, John W Higgins <wishdev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 12:40 PM stan <stanb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a table that consists of 3 columns.

vendor_key
mfg_key
preferred (boolean)

The idea is that a given vendor is the vendor we want to use for each
manufacturer for a given project.

I need to constrain such that  only on row of mfg, vendor and project can
be set to TRUE.


Partial unique index

Example 3 on this page https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/indexes-partial.html is exactly what you are looking for.

John W Higgins

Yes but I have to wonder about one-and-only-one preferred vendor: if there are many known, acceptable vendors, wouldn’t a ranking be more useful?  On a crucial commodity it is common practice to continuously use more than one vendor (i.e. multiple preferred vendors).



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