| From: | Christian Rank <christian(dot)rank(at)rz(dot)uni-passau(dot)de> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: referential integrity constraints not checked inside |
| Date: | 2004-05-13 14:19:17 |
| Message-ID: | 40A383E5.6020401@rz.uni-passau.de |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Christian Rank <christian(dot)rank(at)rz(dot)uni-passau(dot)de> writes:
>
>>... according to the docs, the validity of a constraint should be
>>checked after each statement unless this behaviour is altered with a SET
>>CONSTRAINTS statement.
>
>
> "Statement" means "interactive command" in that context --- in other
> words, the constraints won't be checked until after control returns from
> your function.
Thanks very much, that clarifies this behaviour of PostgreSQL -> it's
definitively a feature, not a bug :-)
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