"Craig Smith" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Alexey, thank you very much for your idea to put a CONSTRAINT on the
> table in the first place, that is the trick for a long term solution.
> Here is how I have put it together:
>
> CREATE TABLE talks (member_id INTEGER, date DATE, CONSTRAINT
> constraint_ignore_dup UNIQUE (member_id, date) ON CONFLICT IGNORE);
>
> I believe that I understand this statement, except for the term
> constraint_ignore_dup. Is that a variable name? Could it be pretty
> much anything I want, and if so, what is its purpose?
It's optional. You can write simply
CREATE TABLE talks (member_id INTEGER, date DATE,
UNIQUE (member_id, date) ON CONFLICT IGNORE);
In some other DBMS'es, constraint name may be used in DROP CONSTRAINT
statement. But SQLite doesn't support that, so naming a constraint is
pointless. SQLite supports CONSTRAINT keyword only to ease porting from
other systems.
Igor Tandetnik
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