> Hi,
>
> In doing some more 7.0 testing, I ran across a difference in functionality
> concerning unique indexes and errors that are reported when you try to
> violate the index. I'm not sure if this change is intentional, so I'm
> bringing it up here. In 6.5.3, if you try to update a row that violates
> a unique index, the query fails and said error is reported to the
> application. However, in 7.0 the query succeeds, but updates 0 rows. Hence,
> no errors are reported back to the application. This is not normally
> a problem because I typically check the constrait before updating.
>
>
> in 7.0/beta3
> basement=> update foobar set unique_colum = '2000-04-09' where foobar_id = 32;
> UPDATE 0
> basement=>
>
> in 6.5.3
> basement=> update foobar set unique_colum = '2000-04-09' where foobar_id = 32;
> ERROR: Cannot insert a duplicate key into a unique index
> basement=>
Works here:
test=> insert into kk values (1);INSERT 18740 1test=> insert into kk values (1);ERROR: Cannot insert a duplicate key
intounique index ii
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