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Re: Open items

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-10-28T03:13:16Z
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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.

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