Re: BUG #11107: UPDATE violates table check constraint

Tom Lane-2 wrote
> jesse.denardo@

>  writes:
>> After creating two test tables and a table check constraint on one of
>> them,
>> I use an UPDATE statement to update one of the rows. This update causes
>> the
>> row to violate the check constraint, but the update succeeds anyways.
>> Dropping and re-adding the check constraint then fails because the
>> constraint is violated.
>
> Sorry, but this check constraint has entirely undefined behavior, as does
> any check constraint that refers to data rows other than the one that is
> being checked.

Which is why PostgreSQL has CREATE TRIGGER functionality...

David J.




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