Re: Deferred RI trigger for non-key UPDATEs and subxacts

"Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> "Affan Salman" <affan@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> With some time to spare, I thought I'd submit a quick-fix patch to the
>> issue I reported here:
>>       http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-07/msg00339.php
>
> I don't think this is right.  If the original tuple was inserted by a
> subtransaction of our transaction, it will have been checked at
> subtransaction subcommit, no?

That doesn't sound right.

> RELEASE SAVEPOINT destroys a savepoint previously defined in the current
> transaction.
>
> Destroying a savepoint makes it unavailable as a rollback point, but it has
> no other user visible behavior.


On the other hand what happens if you have constraints not deferred, insert a
record, then set constraints deferred and update it?

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