Re: Problems with unique restrictions

"Marcel Gsteiger" <Marcel(dot)Gsteiger(at)milprog(dot)ch> writes:
> Now since I upgraded to 8.2 I have problems inserting data into tables that have unique indexes. Ugly enough, I get the message 'duplicate key violates unique constraint' when inserting the very first record into a table. This happens everytime when the new tuple references another tuple that has been inserted just before this one in the same transaction.

> Putting a "SET CONSTRAINTS ALL DEFERRED" in my procedure does not help.

> To me it looks that something with referential integrity checking goes wrong, but in this case the error message would be misleading.

RI would not have anything to do with a duplicate-key error.

Do you have any SERIAL-type columns in these tables? My first thought
is of a sequence that hasn't been updated to be above the existing ID
values. It's fairly easy to get into such a state if you do anything
but a plain vanilla dump-all-and-reload-all update process ...

regards, tom lane