I didn't see anything in the documentation about deferred constraints.
Can you point to someplace where I can read about them?
Thank you!
RobR
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:scott.marlowe@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 2:59 PM
To: Rob Richardson
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] How do I save data and then raise an exception?
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Rob Richardson
<Rob.Richardson@rad-con.com> wrote:
> No, because the application first saves the coils and then saves the
> charge. Setting up the foreign key constraint would prevent any coils
> from being saved because the charge record would never exist at the
> time the coil record was created.
You should be able to set your constraints to deferrable initially
deferred and get proper behaviour even with that update system.
