Hello,

I'm trying to create a constraint that will check to see if the inserted data is found
in another column in the table.

It could be that I'm going about this the wrong way, any clues for me?

Here is the present setup data for the table.

--SNIP--
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DROP SEQUENCE sysusers_user_id_seq;

CREATE SEQUENCE sysusers_user_id_seq START 1000;

DROP TABLE sysusers;

CREATE TABLE sysusers (
user_id                 INTEGER DEFAULT nextval('sysusers_user_id_seq')
                                        UNIQUE NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
username                        text NOT NULL UNIQUE,
password                        text NOT NULL,

createby                        text NOT NULL DEFAULT 'syscreate',

status                  char(1) DEFAULT 'A' CHECK (status in ('A', 'I')),
comment1                        text,
comment2                        text,
tstamp                  timestamp DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
);

CREATE UNIQUE INDEX username_unique_idx ON sysusers (username);

INSERT INTO sysusers (username, password, createby) VALUES ('syscreate', 'testing', 
'syscreate');

ALTER TABLE sysusers ADD CONSTRAINT createby_test CHECK (createby in (username));

INSERT INTO sysusers (username, password) VALUES ('gclarkii', 'testing');
--SNIP--

It is the constraint on createby that I'm trying to get to work.

Thanks for any and all help.

GB

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