Re: changing multiple pk's in one update

From: Richard Broersma <richard(dot)broersma(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Stuart McGraw <smcg2297(at)frii(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: changing multiple pk's in one update
Date: 2009-04-13 17:02:31
Message-ID: 396486430904131002p3faa978fn69bab2872a017436@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Generally speaking, when you need to do this more than once or twice
> in the lifetime of your data, there's something wrong with your data
> model.

True, but there are a few non-traditional data models that would
benefit from this feature. The two that come to my mind are the
Celko nested set tree model, and sequenced temporal tables.

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