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. -- ⚂⚃ 100% natural