On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:02 PM, David Johnston <pol...@yahoo.com> wrote: > A column constraint can only reference its own column. Since you are > referencing "completed" in the CHECK it implicitly converts the Column > constraint into a Table constraint - and table constraints do not reference > the name of a column like a column constraint does during name > auto-generation.
Oh ok, that's a good explanation, thank you > > # alter table pref_match add column win integer default 0 check (completed >>= win and win >= 0); > > Now I have: > > # \d pref_match > Table "public.pref_match" > Column | Type | Modifiers > -----------+-----------------------+------------------------------------ > -----------+-----------------------+----- > id | character varying(32) | > started | integer | default 0 > completed | integer | default 0 > quit | integer | default 0 > yw | character(7) | default to_char(now(), 'IYYY-IW'::text) > win | integer | default 0 > Check constraints: > "pref_match_check" CHECK (completed >= win AND win >= 0) > "pref_match_completed_check" CHECK (completed >= 0) > "pref_match_quit_check" CHECK (quit >= 0) > "pref_match_started_check" CHECK (started >= 0) Foreign-key constraints: > "pref_match_id_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (id) REFERENCES pref_users(id) > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
