Re: referential integrity constraints not checked inside

Christian Rank <christian.rank@rz.uni-passau.de>

From: Christian Rank <christian.rank@rz.uni-passau.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-05-13T14:19:17Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Tom Lane wrote:

> Christian Rank <christian.rank@rz.uni-passau.de> writes:
> 
>>... according to the docs, the validity of a constraint should be
>>checked after each statement unless this behaviour is altered with a SET
>>CONSTRAINTS statement.
> 
> 
> "Statement" means "interactive command" in that context --- in other
> words, the constraints won't be checked until after control returns from
> your function.

Thanks very much, that clarifies this behaviour of PostgreSQL -> it's
definitively a feature, not a bug :-)

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