MySQL Make a combination of columns unique
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07-11-2019 - |
Question
I have a table that stores comments users make about images on the site. The table is structured with four columns, the row_id, which is the primary key, the image_id, the user_id and the comment. What I want to do is ensure that a user can only leave one comment per image. Do I simply create a unique index on the two columns?
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX imgusr ON comments (image_id, user_id);
The idea is to get the following query to work:
INSERT INTO comments SET image_id = '1', user_id = '2', comment = 'nice' ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE comment = 'nice';
The gotchya (gotme?) is that the table is innoDB because it is expected to get very large. Is this the approach that will work, despite the presence of a primary key?
No correct solution
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