Would this be good to be added in the documentation of VIRTUAL columns? Or as a separate page, as a way to enforce/emulate arbitrary CHECK constraints?
It can be slightly simplified (IF is not needed) and the BOOLEAN could be BIT (not sure if that adds any complication): CREATE TABLE truth (t BIT PRIMARY KEY) ; INSERT INTO truth (t) VALUES (TRUE) ; -- and remove all write permissions to the table CREATE TABLE checker ( i float, i_must_be_between_7_and_12 BIT AS (i BETWEEN 7 AND 12) -- whatever CHECK constraint we want here PERSISTENT, CONSTRAINT check_i_must_be_between_7_and_12 FOREIGN KEY (i_must_be_between_7_and_12) REFERENCES truth (t) ); On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 6:46 PM, Pantelis Theodosiou <yperc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 2:10 PM, Peter Laursen <peter_laur...@webyog.com> > wrote: > >> As described in this Blog http://mablomy.blogspot. >> dk/2016/04/check-constraint-for-mysql-not-null-on.html. A very nice >> hack/trick IMO. >> >> However it is not working with MariaDB as VC's cannot be declared NOT >> NULL. What prevents that? >> >> > (Peter, sorry fro the previous private reply, not sure how I got the reply > buttons wrong.) > > I can't answer that, but there's another workaround for (some) CHECK > constraints, described here: http://dba.stackexchange.com/ > questions/9662/check-constraint-does-not-work/22019#22019 > > Unfortunately, it works only for smallish (int or date) ranges. We can't > use for floats or decimals (as it would require a very big reference table). > > But it could be combined with the hack you link, using something like: > > > CREATE TABLE truth (t BOOLEAN PRIMARY KEY) ; > INSERT INTO truth (t) VALUES (TRUE) ; > -- and remove all write permissions to the table > > CREATE TABLE checker ( > i int, > i_must_be_between_7_and_12 BOOLEAN > AS (IF(i BETWEEN 7 AND 12, TRUE, FALSE)) > PERSISTENT, > CONSTRAINT check_i_must_be_between_7_and_12 > FOREIGN KEY (i_must_be_between_7_and_12) > REFERENCES truth (t) > ); > > > Haven't tested it but should work for more complex constraints as well. > > Pantelis > >
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