"Michael P. Soulier" <michael_soulier@mitel.com> writes:
> On 20/01/14 Michael P. Soulier said:
>> This violates the uniquness constraint. Is there a way to say, turn off the
>> constraint, run the update and then turn it back on?
> Hmm. This didn't work.
> tugdb=# SET CONSTRAINTS ALL DEFERRED;
> SET CONSTRAINTS
> tugdb=# update siptrunkroutingrules set rule_number = rule_number + 1;
> ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint
> "siptrunkroutingrules_unique_trunk_rule_number"
You'd have had to mark the index constraint as deferrable for that
to have any effect on it.
regards, tom lane
