Re: brain-teaser with CONSTRAINT - any SQL experts?

From: Miles Keaton <mileskeaton(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: brain-teaser with CONSTRAINT - any SQL experts?
Date: 2005-10-10 03:21:21
Message-ID: 59b2d39b0510092021p776e120bubce1f591a599f0bd@mail.gmail.com
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Uwe said:
> how about using 2 tables with according unique/primary key constraints and a
> view to actually access the data (mixing the 2 tables into one) ?

Oliver said:
> Create a separate table with the two columns name and isbn which are
> that table's primary key; on the main table, create a foreign key to the
> new table

But my original email said:
> > I know it's tempting to say, "just link a separate table for the book
> > and don't store the book name" but let's just pretend that's not an
> > option

For reasons not worth going into, creating a separate table for the
code and name is not an option. It has to be a self-contained
restriction inside this table.

Perhaps there's another way, using triggers or something?

Any other ideas?

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