Re: Change request ...

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:48:52PM +0530, Anoo Sivadasan Pillai wrote:
>> Description :   I have two tables with the same data , While I issue an
>> update command to increment the value of a unique field by 1, the
>> statement fails in one table and will succeed in the other table.
>> Following is the script to reproduce the behaviour.
> 
> Correct. Unique constraints are not deferrable. I'm sure there are
> people who would like it fixed, but there is currently not even a
> proposal on how to do it. It's a hard problem, for which there are
> well-known work-arounds. In practice this problem don't come up too
> often.
> 
> It's been on the TODO list for at least 5 years...

Wow, I was not aware of this limitation. MySQL hacks around this issue 
by allowing an ORDER BY in UPDATE (and DELETE) statements.

regards,
Lukas