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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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Uniqueness without indexes

It's possible to have uniqueness in a set of columns without creating an index. That might be useful if all we want is to ensure uniqueness rather than allow index lookups.

To do that, you can do either of the following:

  • Use a serial data type
  • Manually alter the default to be the nextval() function of a sequence

Each of these will provide a unique value for use as a row's key. The uniqueness is not enforced, nor will there be a unique constraint defined. So there is still a possibility that someone might reset the sequence to an earlier value, which will eventually cause duplicate values.

Consider also that this method provides the unique value as a default, which is not used when the user specifies an explicit ...

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