Re: WIP: Deferrable unique constraints

From: Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)googlemail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: WIP: Deferrable unique constraints
Date: 2009-07-27 19:03:45
Message-ID: 8e2dbb700907271203x13896fe8g2da7ed936231dcc9@mail.gmail.com
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2009/7/27 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
> (In fact, in a real sense these ARE join problems ... maybe we should
> stop thinking of them as fire-a-bunch-of-triggers and instead think of
> executing a single check query with appropriate WHERE clause ...)
>

Hmm. Presumably that is the same WHERE clause as the UPDATE.
But it has to execute after the update. How does it avoid re-executing
functions, re-incrementing sequences, etc... ?

- Dean

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