On Thu, 22 May 2003, Jan Wieck wrote:
> Luis Sousa wrote:
> > Jan Wieck wrote:
> >> You used a trigger to check something, but unless you have a full set of
> >> said triggers and they do the locking as well, you do not have
> >> referential integrity.
> >>
> >>
> >> Jan
> >>
> >>
> > I guess you are right.
> > I'll have to write a trigger for UPDATE or DELETE. How can I do the lock
> > only on that record ?
>
> That exactly is the problem with arrays here. You can't index an array
> in a way so that you can effectively select all rows who's array
> contains a particular value. Your trigger can only select all of them
there is contrib/intarray which could be used for indexed access to
array of integers. In principle, it should be not difficult to
generalize this module to support many types.
>
> Jan
>
>
Regards, Oleg
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