Re: DEFERRABLE NOT NULL constraint

Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz>

From: Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2013-02-06T05:05:36Z
Lists: pgsql-general
On 2013-02-05, Bèrto ëd Sèra <berto.d.sera@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
>> Why do that as a trigger, then? Why not simply call a procedure that
>> generates the value and inserts it?
>
> Because this must be unknown to whoever makes the call and I'm not
> supposed to expose any detail of what's going on behind the scenes.
> Outsourcing part of sensitive apps also means that you do not want all
> of the outside devs to know all that company X is doing, and how it is
> doing it, sometimes.
>
> Cheers
> Bèrto

You've hidden nothing from INSERT-RETURNING. 



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