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Re: Atomicity?


  • From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
  • To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
  • Cc: Naz Gassiep <naz(at)mira(dot)net>, Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)seespotcode(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: Atomicity?
  • Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:52:44 +0200
  • Message-id: <200608282252(dot)45608(dot)peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> Sure, UNIQUE constraints are not deferrable. With normal constraints
> you can defer the check until the end of transaction and be in an
> inconsistant state for while. However, PostgreSQL doesn't support
> this for uniqueness checks.

Note that even a nondeferred unique constraint would let the command 
proceed because a nondeferred constraint is checked after the 
statement, not at seemingly random points during it.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/



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