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# Adding Composite Uniqueness Constraints
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There are two ways in Postgres to create a composite uniqueness constraint,
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that is, a constraint that ensures that the combination of two or more
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values on a table only appear once. For the following two code snippets,
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assume that we have a table relating Pokemon and Trainers and that our
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domain restricts each Trainer to only having at most one of each Pokemon.
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The first approach is to create a `constraint` directly on the table:
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```sql
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alter table pokemons_trainers
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add constraint pokemons_trainers_pokemon_id_trainer_id_key
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unique (pokemon_id, trainer_id);
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```
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The second approach is to create a unique index:
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```sql
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create unique index pokemons_trainers_pokemon_id_trainer_id_idx
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on pokemons_trainers (pokemon_id, trainer_id);
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```
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