Re: [HACKERS] RE: Joins and links

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> All,
>
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> The question I ask myself though is, are there any concrete plans for
> >> referential integrity via foreign key clauses? 6.6, 7.0,
> >> never? To me,
> >> that's really much more important than query speed or MVCC.
> I'd have to go along with this, because I've noticed that DRI is a LOT
> faster than using triggers to implement RI. Although not on PG (on Oracle
> actually), I think that the results can be extrapolated closely enough. DRI
> reduces the implementation overhead dramatically.

This is on our 6.6 short list, and someone has said he will work on it
"after 6.5".

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