Re: FK NOT VALID can't be deferrable? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: FK NOT VALID can't be deferrable?
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Msg-id 1308168833-sup-3188@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: FK NOT VALID can't be deferrable?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mié jun 15 11:54:25 -0400 2011:
> Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> writes:
> > On 15 June 2011 07:56, Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> >> Testing the CHECK NOT VALID patch i found $subject... is this intended?
> 
> > Aside from the ugliness of the code, we can't just add a
> > ConstraintAttributeSpec to the second block, because that would
> > enforce an order to these options.
> 
> > OTOH adding NOT VALID to ConstraintAttributeSpec is a bit invasive,
> > since it's used in quite a few places, including CREATE TABLE, where
> > NOT VALID is never allowed.
> 
> I think we need to do the second one, ie, add it to
> ConstraintAttributeSpec and do what's necessary to filter later.
> The reason we have a problem here is exactly that somebody took
> shortcuts.
> 
> It'd probably be sufficient to have one or two places in
> parse_utilcmds.c know which variants of Constraint actually support
> NOT VALID, and throw an error for the rest.

So is somebody from 2nd Quadrant going to supply a patch to fix this?

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