Re: First-draft release notes for next week's releases

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: First-draft release notes for next week's releases
Date: 2014-03-17 18:01:03
Message-ID: 24176.1395079263@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> That's much better, yes. Two things:

> * I'd change the warning about unique key violations into a more general
> one about constraints. Foreign key and exclusion constraint are also
> affected...

I'll see what I can do.

> * I wonder if we should make the possible origins a bit more
> general as it's perfectly possible to trigger the problem without
> foreign keys. Maybe: "can arise when a table row that has been updated
> is row locked; that can e.g. happen when foreign keys are used."

IIUC, this case only occurs when using the new-in-9.3 types of
nonexclusive row locks. I'm willing to bet that the number of
applications using those is negligible; so I think it's all right to not
mention that case explicitly, as long as the wording doesn't say that
foreign keys are the *only* cause (which I didn't).

regards, tom lane

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