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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: abnormal behaviour of a CHECK CONSTRAINT with a regular expression when a trigger is added
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Msg-id 15074.1076427520@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to abnormal behaviour of a CHECK CONSTRAINT with a regular expression when a trigger is added  (Daniel Struck <struck.d@retrovirology.lu>)
Responses Re: abnormal behaviour of a CHECK CONSTRAINT with a regular  (Daniel Struck <struck.d@retrovirology.lu>)
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Daniel Struck <struck.d@retrovirology.lu> writes:
> I think I have found a bug in postgresql:

I don't see any bug here; it's just that CHECK constraints are applied
after any BEFORE triggers are run.  Since the triggers could change the
data to be inserted, the reverse order would be insecure.

            regards, tom lane

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