On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 08:39:00AM +0800, gao iqiang wrote:
> Hello,
> I met the following problem when i am using PostgreSQL as a backend
> database:
> I have a table "tabrel(a int primary key, b int)", and now there are for
> example 100 records with column 'a' be from 1 to 100. When i'm going to add
> one to each 'a' and intended to get 'a' varing from 2 to 101, i use SQL
> query as "update tabrel set a=a+1" , but i got " ERROR: duplicate key
> violates unique constraint tabrel_a_key".
Yes, PostgreSQL doesn't currently support deferred unique constraints.
You can find workarounds in the archives.
Have a nice day,
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