| From: | Joseph Maxwell <jemaxwell(at)jaymax(dot)com> | 
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| To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Subject: | Setting up Field constraints | 
| Date: | 2002-03-06 23:51:25 | 
| Message-ID: | 3C86AB7D.104CD2BE@jaymax.com | 
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Hello,
I have created a DB and TABLE but would like to constrain one field to
accept either "YES" or "NO" only. How can I set this up?
I have tried various syntactic constructs of
     Prior_Rx   varchar(3) NULL CHECK ('Yes', 'No'),
     Prior_Rx   varchar(3) NULL CHECK (VALUE 'Yes', 'No'),
     Prior_Rx   varchar(3) NULL CHECK ('Yes', 'No'),
     Prior_Rx   varchar(3) NULL CONSTRAINT (CHECK (VALUE 'Yes', 'No')),
     Prior_Rx   varchar(3) NULL CONSTRAINT (CHECK ('Yes', 'No')),
     Prior_Rx   varchar(3) NULL CONSTRAINT (CHECK (VALUE Yes, No)),
     Prior_Rx   varchar(3) NULL CONSTRAINT (CHECK (Yes, No)),
     Prior_Rx   varchar(3) NULL CONSTRAINT (CHECK (Yes OR No)),
     Prior_Rx   varchar(3) NULL CHECK (Yes OR No),
     Prior_Rx   varchar(3) NULL CHECK ('Yes' OR 'No'),
Obviously they were all wrong, could someone advise?
Thanks
--  Joe  --
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PS:
Just learned that the datatype should be 'bool' in this case
haven't tested it yet
But had I wanted to restrict it to say either mike or john, or even one
of a list say, 'tea', 'coffee', 'chocolate' or 'espresso', how should
that be constructed?
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