Re: [HACKERS] PC Week PostgreSQL benchmark results posted online (fwd)

Jan Wieck wrote:

> > Tim Dyck asked me to forward this on to the list.
> >
> > *****************************
> >
> > FYI, the story is available online at:
> >
> > http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2436153,00.html
> >
> > As I think I have mentioned, I would like to review PostgreSQL 7.0 when it
> > goes gold, so if someone could let me know when it is available, that
> > would be much appreciated.
>
> And that'll be an interesting one. Just looked into the MSSQL
> 7.0 docs today. They don't have referential actions! So
> something like ON UPDATE CASCADE/... must be implemented the
> hard way as triggers. Need to look it up once again tomorrow
> to see if constraints can be deferred or not.
>
> On this detail, we already left at least one (and definitely
> not the smallest) commercial database behind on the way to
> SQL3.
>
> Can someone take a look at Interbase, Oracle and others about
> it?
>
> Jan
>
> --
>

Borland Interbase 4.0 syntax:

contraint_def:
{ PRIMARY KEY | UNIQUE (col [, col...] )
| FOREIGN KEY (col [, col...]) REFERENCES other_table
| CHECK (<search_condition>)
}

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