Tom Lane wrote:
Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

However, Bruce, this should be on the TODO list:
    * Allow foreign key to reference a superset of the columns
      covered by a unique constraint on the referenced table.


See the followup discussion as to why this is a bad idea.

Maybe an alternative todo?

* Allow multiple unique constraints to share an index where one is a superset of the others' columns.

That way you can mark it unique without having the overhead of multiple indexes.

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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd

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