Re: Constraint that compares and limits field values

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 09:55:58AM -0800, MargaretGillon(at)chromalloy(dot)com wrote:
> ALTER TABLE event
> ADD CONSTRAINT two_nulls_1 CHECK
> ((evenid1 IS NULL) AND (evevid1 IS NULL) and (evreid1 IS NOT NULL)) OR
> ((evenid1 IS NULL) AND (evevid1 IS NOT NULL) and (evreid1 IS NULL)) OR
> ((evenid1 IS NOT NULL) AND (evevid1 IS NULL) and (evreid1 IS NULL))

Parhaps something like:

CHECK((CASE WHEN evenid1 IS NOT NULL THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) +
(CASE WHEN evenid2 IS NOT NULL THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) +
(CASE WHEN evenid3 IS NOT NULL THEN 1 ELSE 0 END)) = 1;

If you can find a function to turn a bool into an int it becomes even
easier.

Hope this helps,
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