Is is possible to have an optional unique field?

thgh

last month

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  Kyr

  last month

  Not true. I’ve had many occasions in other systems where I needed SQL indexes for “unique or null”

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  thgh

  last month

  Agree, how to do it in payload?

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  Kyr

  last month

  Could you do it in a custom validate function?

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  thgh

  last month

  Probably, but I think that would introduce a potential race condition. Created a discussion over here:

  https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/discussions/2072
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  jesschow

  Payload Team

  4 weeks ago

  Going to mark an answered as the discussion has moved to github here.