Re: Open items

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

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
Cc: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-10-28T05:02:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
> 
> > 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 ...

That's all I need --- a consensus that is isn't significant enough to be
on this list.

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