| From: | "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev(at)SECTORBASE(dot)COM> |
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| To: | "'Merrill Oveson'" <merrill(at)actarg(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Cc: | Kyle Bateman <kyle(at)actiontarget(dot)com> |
| Subject: | RE: unique constraint - bug? |
| Date: | 2000-07-20 00:22:36 |
| Message-ID: | 8F4C99C66D04D4118F580090272A7A23018C66@SECTORBASE1 |
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> unique (a, b, c)
> );
>
> insert into letter values('1','2','3');
> insert into letter values('1','2','3');
>
> insert into letter (a,c) values ('1','3');
> insert into letter (a,c) values ('1','3');
>
> Notice that the second insert of ('1','2','3') yields an
> error message, which is the correct behavior - (that is the unique
> constaint is working), while the last insert of ('1','3') does not yield
> an error message - (that is the unique constraint doesn't work in this
> case - I think it should).
NULL != NULL - ie you can't say that both keys are equal.
(That's why PK constraint disallow NULLs...)
Vadim
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