X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66E365E46E7 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:42:00 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 50668-02 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:41:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (imap.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4EDCC5E46C7 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:41:53 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail 26384 invoked by uid 65534); 16 Aug 2004 20:41:55 -0000 Received: from dsl-213-023-250-030.arcor-ip.net (EHLO colt.pezone.net) (213.23.250.30) by mail.gmx.net (mp018) with SMTP; 16 Aug 2004 22:41:55 +0200 X-Authenticated: #495269 From: Peter Eisentraut To: Markus Bertheau , pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: any chance SQL ASSERTIONS will be implemented? Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:41:54 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <1092687349.2902.1.camel@teetnang> In-Reply-To: <1092687349.2902.1.camel@teetnang> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200408162241.54380.peter_e@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200408/150 X-Sequence-Number: 18647 Markus Bertheau wrote: > in the course of designing a database schema and ensuring integrity > everywhere I have stumbled over a problem that Josh told me > ASSERTIONS would solve. Is there any chance ASSERTIONS will be > implemented in PostgreSQL? There is a pretty good chance, but there is no telling when it will happen. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/