- CREATE TABLE emails (
- user_id integer,email_address text,is_active boolean
- )
一些示例行
- user_id | email_address | is_active
- 1 | foo@bar.com | t
- 1 | baz@bar.com | f
- 1 | bar@foo.com | f
- 2 | ccc@ddd.com | t
我想强制执行一个约束,每个用户只有一个活动地址.我怎样才能在Postgres中做到这一点?我能做到这一点:
- CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "user_email" ON emails(user_id) WHERE is_active=true;
这可以防止具有多个活动地址的用户,但我相信,它不会防止所有地址设置为false.
如果可能的话,我宁愿避免触发器或pl / pgsql脚本,因为我们目前没有任何这样的&设置起来会很困难.但我很高兴知道“只有这样才能使用触发器或pl / pgsql”,如果是这样的话.
您甚至不需要DEFERRABLE约束.
而且您不需要冗余地存储任何信息.
在users表中包含活动电子邮件的ID,从而产生相互引用.有人可能会认为我们需要一个DEFERRABLE约束来解决插入用户及其活动电子邮件的鸡与蛋问题,但使用数据修改CTE我们甚至不需要它.
- CREATE TABLE users (
- user_id serial PRIMARY KEY,username text NOT NULL,email_id int NOT NULL -- FK to active email,constraint added below
- );
- CREATE TABLE email (
- email_id serial PRIMARY KEY,user_id int NOT NULL REFERENCES users ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE,email text NOT NULL,CONSTRAINT email_fk_uni UNIQUE(user_id,email_id) -- for FK constraint below
- );
- ALTER TABLE users ADD CONSTRAINT active_email_fkey
- FOREIGN KEY (user_id,email_id) REFERENCES email(user_id,email_id);
从users.email_id中删除NOT NULL约束,使其“最多只能有一个活动的电子邮件”. (您仍然可以为每个用户存储多封电子邮件,但这些电子邮件都不是“活动”.)
您可以使active_email_fkey DEFERRABLE允许更多余地(在同一事务的单独命令中插入用户和电子邮件),但这不是必需的.
我将user_id放在UNIQUE约束email_fk_uni中以优化索引覆盖率.细节:
> Is a composite index also good for queries on the first field?
可选视图:
- CREATE VIEW user_with_active_email AS
- SELECT * FROM users JOIN email USING (user_id,email_id);
- WITH new_data(username,email) AS (
- VALUES
- ('usr1','abc@d.com') -- new users with *1* active email,('usr2','def3@d.com'),('usr3','ghi1@d.com')
- ),u AS (
- INSERT INTO users(username,email_id)
- SELECT n.username,nextval('email_email_id_seq'::regclass)
- FROM new_data n
- RETURNING *
- )
- INSERT INTO email(email_id,user_id,email)
- SELECT u.email_id,u.user_id,n.email
- FROM u
- JOIN new_data n USING (username);
具体的困难是我们既没有user_id也没有email_id.两者都是从各自的SEQUENCE提供的序列号.单个RETURNING子句(另一个鸡和蛋问题)无法解决它.解决方案是nextval(),如explained in detail in the linked answer below.
如果您不知道串行列email.email_id的附加序列的名称,则可以替换:
- nextval('email_email_id_seq'::regclass)
同
- nextval(pg_get_serial_sequence('email','email_id'))
- WITH e AS (
- INSERT INTO email (user_id,email)
- VALUES (3,'new_active@d.com')
- RETURNING *
- )
- UPDATE users u
- SET email_id = e.email_id
- FROM e
- WHERE u.user_id = e.user_id;
如果一些头脑简单的ORM不够聪明,无法应对,那么您可以将sql命令封装在服务器端函数中.
密切相关,有充分的解释:
> How to deal with mutually recursive inserts
> Complex foreign key constraint in SQLAlchemy
还有关系:
> Enforcing constraints “two tables away”
关于DEFERRABLE约束:
> Constraint defined DEFERRABLE INITIALLY IMMEDIATE is still DEFERRED?
关于nextval()和pg_get_serial_sequence():
> PostgreSQL SELECT primary key as “serial” or “bigserial”
> Duplicate row with Primary Key in PostgreSQL