Re: Duplicate Key Violates Unique Contraint when Updating a table - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ragnar
Subject Re: Duplicate Key Violates Unique Contraint when Updating a table
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Msg-id 1182679516.5953.241.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Duplicate Key Violates Unique Contraint when Updating a table  ("carter ck" <carterck32@hotmail.com>)
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On sun, 2007-06-24 at 16:55 +0800, carter ck wrote:
> I am experiencing thgis problem since this morning. I seldom heard about
> unique key constraint violation to happen when updating a table.
>
> It happens to 1 or few records at early stage, but then to all.
>
> My updating command is as following:
>
> update mytable set my_status='Y' where myid='ABC123567778';
>
> Can anyone help? All helps and solutions are appreciated.

sounds like you have a UNIQUE constraint involving the column
"my_status".

did you recently create a new index on this table?

what does psql say to:
\d mytable


gnari



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