On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Ben-Nes Michael wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > Does 7.4 support defferable updates on unique column ?
> >
> > example
> >
> > unique INT colum named u_test has the following values: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
> >
> > can i do update table set u_test = u_test + 1;
>
> No, this is on our TODO list. Also, I can't think of a workaround. :-(
If negative values aren't allowed normally, I think you can do it in an
ugly fashion through two updates, something like:
update table set u_test=-u_test-1;
update table set u_test=-u_test;