Re: creating CHECK constraints as NOT VALID

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: creating CHECK constraints as NOT VALID
Date: 2011-06-01 02:55:03
Message-ID: 1306896838-sup-80@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from David Fetter's message of mar may 31 21:42:08 -0400 2011:

> A colleague brought up an interesting idea that I think is worth
> exploring for all NOT VALID constraints, to wit, is there some way
> (via SQL) to find which rows violate which constraints? I'm picturing
> some kind of function that could be aggregated into some structure for
> each violating row...

Seems like a job for a plpgsql function with a bunch of exception handlers ...
Some details like the violated constraint name would be hard to extract,
probably, though.

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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