Check/unique constraint question

I have a table with the following structure:

Column | Type | Modifiers
------------+---------+-----------------------
active | boolean | not null default true
id | integer | not null
(other columns left out)

And would like to make a unique constraint which would only check the
uniqueness of id if active=true.

So, the following values would be acceptable:

('f',5)
('f',5)
('t',5)

But these would not be:

('t',5)
('t',5)

Basically, I want something like:
ALTER TABLE bar ADD CONSTRAINT foo UNIQUE(active (where active='t'),id)

But the above does not appear to exist. Is there a simple way to create a
check constraint for this type of situation, or do I need to create a function
to eval a check constraint?

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