Re: Inserting possible dublicate unique keys

Hi,

Richard Huxton wrote:
>
> > CREATE TABLE referer (
> > id SERIAL,
> > referer varchar(2048) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY
> > );
[...]
>
> Why have you got id as a serial if referer is your primary key? Oh - I
> suppose it's easier to reference a serial of course, less data to carry
> around.

oh, in reality the id is an int4 with unique index and nectval(...) ;-)

> The only thing I can think of is to insert into a staging table where
> referer isn't unique and insert into the real table from a snapshot of that
> staging table. Not sure that's a cleaner solution than yours though.

hm, but for this I have to change IDs in the Referencing Log-Table later
....

Now it works since two days on the production server with the solution
"try once again if error" and it seems it works good :-)

Ciao
Alvar

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