i found a workaround, but relativly slow.
The column is not unique and when the update is finished i fire up a trigger
that check for uniqueness.
lets wait for pg7.5 :)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: "Ben-Nes Michael" <miki@canaan.co.il>
Cc: "postgresql" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] defferable update & unique
> Ben-Nes Michael wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > Does 7.4 support defferable updates on unique column ?
> >
> > example
> >
> > unique INT colum named u_test has the following values: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
> >
> > can i do update table set u_test = u_test + 1;
>
> No, this is on our TODO list. Also, I can't think of a workaround. :-(
>
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