Re: COPY documentation with regard to references constraints

On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 13:15:34 +0100,
Dominique Devienne <ddevienne(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>AFAIK, DEFERRABLE is for temporary violations crossing statement boundaries,
>to postpone the enforcement of FKs at COMMIT time of the transaction.
>
>While a single COPY is just one statement, so whether a temporary violation
>for self-referential FKs would occur would be implementation-dependent,
>and thus "neither logical" nor predictable.
>
>Applies to other statement types too.

Thanks. I needed to look more carefully under deferrable where it says
the following:
This controls whether the constraint can be deferred. A constraint that is
not deferrable will be checked immediately after every command.

That is pretty clear.