On 2022-Dec-09, Tom Lane wrote:
> I think though that it might be okay to just define this as
> Not Our Problem. Although we don't seem to try to enforce it,
> non-immutable domain check constraints are strongly deprecated
> (the CREATE DOMAIN man page says that we assume immutability).
> And not throwing errors is something that we usually consider
> should ride along with immutability. So I think it might be
> okay to say "if you want soft error treatment for a domain,
> make sure its check constraints don't throw errors".
I think that's fine. If the user does, say "CHECK (value > 0)" and that
results in a soft error, that seems to me enough support for now. If
they want to do something more elaborate, they can write C functions.
Maybe eventually we'll want to offer some other mechanism that doesn't
require C, but let's figure out what the requirements are. I don't
think we know that, at this point.
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