Philip Hallstrom <[email protected]> writes:

> On Feb 24, 2010, at 11:17 AM, Jarl Friis wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> This must be the most obvious thing to do, but I just can't seem to
>> find examples of how to do this. I would like to create a table with a
>> table unique constraint on database level.
>>
>> In deed some migration code that would generate the following SQL
>>
>> CREATE TABLE properties (
>>  namespace CHAR(50),
>>  name      CHAR(50),
>>  value     VARCHAR(100),
>>  CONSTRAINT my_constraint UNIQUE (namespace, name)
>> );
>>
>
> create_table :properties.....
>    .....
> end
>
> add_index :properties, [:namespace, :name], :unique => true

After trying this and opening my interactive SQL prompt (psql), I can
see that this only creates an index on the table not a table
constraint. I can still put duplicate rows in the table.

Jarl

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