From: | Dmitry Tkach <dmitry(at)openratings(dot)com> |
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To: | Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb(at)eskimo(dot)com> |
Cc: | "kay-uwe(dot)genz" <kug1977(at)web(dot)de>, PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: CREATE TABLE with REFERENCE |
Date: | 2003-07-28 19:48:13 |
Message-ID: | 3F257DFD.4060808@openratings.com |
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Jonathan Bartlett wrote:
>Why not just drop the "references" clause? I mean, the point of having
>transactions is to guarantee integrity within a transaction, if you're not
>going to have that, why even bother with the clause?
>
Quite the opposite - the point is to guaratee the integrity *outside*
the transaction.
You can set the constraints to be 'deferred', so that the referential
integrity only gets verified at the time you commit your transaction-
this way you can allow 'temporary' violations of the constraints inside
your transactions, while still being guaranteed that all the data that
actually gets committed satisfies all of your constraints.
>
>Most of my databases don't even user "references", just because I like the
>flexibility, and I have multitable keys (keys that can refer to rows from
>multiple tables).
>
>
Not much to brag about :-)
Dima
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