On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 09:06, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 05:19:32AM +0000, > Patrick TJ McPhee <ptjm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote > a message of 37 lines which said: > > > but you should know that in SQL, unique constraints don't apply to > > rows containing null values > > May be I should but I didn't. > > > your table definition will be as you want it, but the constraint you > > want won't be there. > > OK, I will try to write a custom trigger, then. Often the best bet here, btw, is to declare it not null then use something other than null to represent null, like the text characters NA or something. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
