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All versions of PostgreSQL. Add an additional version-specific tag like [postgresql-13] if that context is relevant.

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Partial unique constraint spanning multiple tables in postgres

Postgres directly supports table inheritance, which does the trick: CREATE TABLE base_possession ( possession_id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY ); CREATE TABLE possession ( possession_id INTEGER NOT NULL RE …
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Partial unique constraint spanning multiple tables in postgres

To enforce partial uniqueness in postgres, it is a well known workaround to create a partial unique index instead of an explicit constraint, like so: CREATE TABLE possession ( possession_id serial …
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Partial unique constraint spanning multiple tables in postgres

Not an answer for postgres, but may be useful nevertheless to someone using Oracle who stumbles across this: Oracle allows partial uniqueness to be enforced across multiple tables using a fast refresh …
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