Re: constraints and performance - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Christopher Browne
Subject Re: constraints and performance
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In response to constraints and performance  (Jodi Kanter <jkanter@virginia.edu>)
Responses Re: constraints and performance  (postgres@jal.org)
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, jkanter@virginia.edu (Jodi Kanter) wrote:
> Do constraints effect performance significantly?

They would be expected to provide a significant enhancement to
performance over:
 a) Firing triggers,
 b) Firing rules, and
 c) Forcing the application to validate the data, and then adding
    in "data validation" reports to report on the cases where a buggy
    application violated the constraints.

So yes, they should be considerably faster than any of their
alternatives.
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