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Re: Open items

Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@postgresql.org>

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From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
To: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-10-28T04:28:00Z
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> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > >
> > > > Changes
> > > > -------
> > > > Allow superuser (dba?) the ability to turn off foreign key checks/all
> > > >   constraints/triggers, not settable from postgresql.conf?
> > >
> > > feature, not bug fix, no?
> >
> > It became important when everyone realized that 7.4 would be first major
> > upgrade with full foreign key checking --- prior to that we did CREATE
> > CONSTRAINT TRIGGER that didn't check data.  Basically, that's how it got
> > on the open item list.

Altho important, it is still a feature, and as such, should not be
critical to holding up the release ...