I don't like implementation of referential integrity constraints
in contrib/spi/refint.* and implementation of ... unique indices:
backend checks constraints when tuple is changed.
Oracle checks constraints after entire _statement_ is done.
Do you remember this:
vac=> create table x (a int unique);
NOTICE: CREATE TABLE/UNIQUE will create implicit index x_a_key for table x
CREATE
vac=> insert into x values (1);
INSERT 143852 1
vac=> insert into x values (2);
INSERT 143853 1
vac=> update x set a = a + 1;
ERROR: Cannot insert a duplicate key into a unique index
This is simplest case. Keeping in mind triggers
I would like to see Oracle behaviour some day and so
I decided to do not implement FOREIGN keys in 6.4 -:((
Sorry.
Vadim
