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Add Creating Conditional Constraints as a postgres til.

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- [Count Records By Type](postgres/count-records-by-type.md)
- [Create A Composite Primary Key](postgres/create-a-composite-primary-key.md)
- [Create hstore From Two Arrays](postgres/create-hstore-from-two-arrays.md)
- [Creating Conditional Constraints](postgres/creating-conditional-constraints.md)
- [Default Schema](postgres/default-schema.md)
- [Defining Arrays](postgres/defining-arrays.md)
- [Edit Existing Functions](postgres/edit-existing-functions.md)

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# Creating Conditional Constraints
There are times when it doesn't make sense for a constraint to apply to all
records in a table. For instance, if we have a table of pokemon, we may only
want to apply a unique index constraint to the names of non-wild pokemon.
This can be achieved with the following conditional constraint:
```sql
create unique index pokemons_names on pokemons (names)
where wild = false;
```
If we try to insert a non-wild pokemon with a duplicate name, we will get an
error. Likewise, if we try to update a pokemon with a duplicate name from
wild to non-wild, we will get an error.
[source](http://www.postgresguide.com/performance/conditional.html)