On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Alexey Fedorchenko wrote:

I was on linux, although I just installed 8.0b2 dev 3 to my windows box
and tried #2 and still got a success.

Are you sure that the constraint wasn't deferred and/or that you weren't
doing this inside a function? In the former case there's a reading of spec
question for the timing of the actions (are they on the statement or at
check time -- we've done the latter although a rereading implies that we
may have previously read it wrong) and the latter, up until Tom's very
recent patch, any AFTER triggers (or foreign keys) waited until the end of
the original statement from the user to run.


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Let me guess - did you use psql? I found that mentioned scenarios run successfuly under psql but pgAdmin's console and PHP driven invocation lead to fail (even with own Slackware 10 driven host server under pgsql 8.0.0 beta 2 (seems to be the same as you)).

As i told, under pgAdmin's console and PHP it fails anyway but psql falls only with function invocation.

I misunderstood this sentence... Do you wanna told me that within single statements batch there could be non-serializable execution? If true then it seems to be a architectual issue (i could expect parallel execution within single sql statement but all constraints have to be checked right after it finished - not before and not after, just at a statement execution finish moment). Otherwise it is a bug anyway, imho.

In attachment you'll find sample scenarios that lead psql to fail under *nix.

NB: Scripts have to be placed at /tmp folder otherwise you'll need to fix check_uq.sh.


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