On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:50:04AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> Could BEFORE INSERT|UPDATE|DELETE triggers perform the same
> functionality while touching only the desired records, thus
> decreasing conflict?
You can make the constraint DEFERRABLE INITIALY DEFERRED. It helps
somewhat. But the potential for deadlock, and the backing up, will
still happen to some degree. It's a well-known flaw in the FK
system. I beleive the FK implementation was mostly intended as a
proof of concept.
A
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