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Anurag Shekhar commented on DERBY-2212:
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Thanks Mike and Oleksandr for showing interest and inputs.
>From your last comment I can't tell what you plan on changing to implement
>this. Are you
planning on changing the btree index implementation, which is a high risk
change.
No I am still in the process of finding the best way of implementing this and I
think it won't require change in B tree implementation.
> Add "Unique where not null" to create index
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> Key: DERBY-2212
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-2212
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: SQL
> Affects Versions: 10.2.1.6
> Reporter: Oleksandr Alesinskyy
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> Derby prohibits creation of unique constraints on nullable colums (as well if
> only some columns in the constraint list are nullable) and treat nulls in
> unique indexes as normal values (i.e. only one row with null values in
> indexed columns may be inserted into the table). This bahavior is very
> restrictive, does not completely comply with SQL standards (both letter and
> intent) as well as with business needs and intending meaning of NULL values
> (2 null values are not considered as equal, this comparision shall return
> NULL, and for selection criteria boolean null is treated as FALSE).
> This behavior, as far as I can see, is modelled after DB2 (and differs from
> behavior of most other major databases, like SyBase, Oracle, etc.).
> But even DB2 provide some means to alleviate these restrictions, namely
> "UNIQUE WHERE NOT NULL" clause for CREATE INDEX statement.
> It will be very good if such "UNIQUE WHERE NOT NULL" clause will be
> introduced in Derby.
> Regards,
> Oleksandr Alesinskyy
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