Re: PRIMARY KEY on a *group* of columns imply that each column is NOT

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 10:26:30AM -0400,
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote
a message of 9 lines which said:

> If that's what you want, declare it as UNIQUE not PRIMARY KEY.

As shown by Patrick TJ McPhee, it does not work:

tests=> create table x (
tests(> name TEXT NOT NULL,
tests(> address INET,
tests(> CONSTRAINT na UNIQUE (name, address)
tests(> );
NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / UNIQUE will create implicit index "na" for table "x"
CREATE TABLE
tests=> INSERT INTO x (name) values ('foobar');
INSERT 45380 1
tests=> INSERT INTO x (name) values ('foobar');
INSERT 45381 1
tests=> INSERT INTO x (name) values ('foobar');
INSERT 45382 1
tests=> INSERT INTO x (name) values ('foobar');
INSERT 45383 1
tests=> select * from x;
name | address
--------+---------
foobar |
foobar |
foobar |
foobar |
(4 rows)