3.3

Constraints

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Tables Constraints

Table constraints are constraints that are applied to the table as a whole.

PRIMARY KEY

The PRIMARY KEY constraint specifies that a column or columns of a table can contain only unique (non-duplicate), non-null values.

Using columns of type object, geo_point, geo_shape or array as PRIMARY KEY is not supported.

To use a whole object as PRIMARY KEY each column within the object can be declared as PRIMARY KEY instead.

Adding a PRIMARY KEY column is only possible if the table is empty.

Warning

The verification if the table is empty and the schema update isn’t atomic. That means that it could be possible to add a primary key column to a table that isn’t empty.

If that is the case queries that contain the primary key columns in the WHERE clause will not behave as expected.

INDEX

The INDEX constraint specifies a specific index method on one or more columns.

It is possible to define more than one index per table, whether as a column constraint or a table constraint.

For further details about the meaning of the options see Fulltext Indices.

Column Constraints

Column constraints are constraints that are applied on each column of the table separately.

The supported column constraints are:

NOT NULL

The NOT NULL constraint specifies that a column of a table can contain only non-null values.

The columns that are part of the primary key of a table are NOT NULL by default.