Re: Change request ... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: Change request ...
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Msg-id 20070927094436.GA13133@svana.org
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In response to Change request ...  ("Anoo Sivadasan Pillai" <aspillai@in.rm.com>)
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On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:48:52PM +0530, Anoo Sivadasan Pillai wrote:
> Description :   I have two tables with the same data , While I issue an
> update command to increment the value of a unique field by 1, the
> statement fails in one table and will succeed in the other table.
> Following is the script to reproduce the behaviour.

Correct. Unique constraints are not deferrable. I'm sure there are
people who would like it fixed, but there is currently not even a
proposal on how to do it. It's a hard problem, for which there are
well-known work-arounds. In practice this problem don't come up too
often.

It's been on the TODO list for at least 5 years...

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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