public inbox for [email protected]  

help / color / mirror / Atom feed

From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Mutable foreign key constraints
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 10:51:49 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>

Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]> writes:
> On 2024-09-12 Th 5:33 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'm inclined to propose rejecting FK constraints if the comparison
>> operator is not immutable.

> Isn't there an upgrade hazard here? People won't thank us if they can't 
> now upgrade their clusters. If we can get around that then +1.

Yeah, they would have to fix the bad DDL before upgrading.  It'd
be polite of us to add a pg_upgrade precheck for such cases,
perhaps.

			regards, tom lane

view thread (3+ messages)

reply

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
  reply via email

  To: [email protected]
  Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
  Subject: Re: Mutable foreign key constraints
  In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

This inbox is served by agora; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox