Hi, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > I guess my point was really that multi-table indexes might have uses > beyond partitioning.
Aha, now I understand. Thanks for the clarification.
Say I have two tables, each with a field FKed to a field in a third table. I'd like to create the values to be unique across the referring tables. Now, there are various tricks that can be played either with custom triggers or redundant data to do this, but there's no easy way. However, a multi-table unique index would do it for me quite nicely, if we could create such a thing.
Maybe going into a similar direction and better think of it as a multi-table uniqueness constraint, which internally uses multiple, single-table indexes?
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