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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Constraint problem
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 12:30:23 -0700
Message-ID: <200205161230.23619.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020516121101.S91494-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
References: <20020516121101.S91494-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com>


Stephan,
> > I don't seem to be able to create a UNIQUE constraint as DEFERRABLE.  Is 
this
> > not supported?
> 
> Not currently.

Hmm ... my workaround didn't work.   I need to impose a unique constraint on 
an INT column in a table, but make sure that the constraint isn't checked 
until the end of an UPDATE statement, so that I can swap values when I need 
to.

How can I do this?

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