On 17/01/2017 11:59, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
>> A classical example: isql -x
>>
>> Creates lots of workarounds and many times has problems with
>> dependencies, while it could instead create all metadata in the same
>> transaction without care about order and commit everything together
>> letting the engine do the job.
>    Yes, that's exactly what I was talking about: dependency on objects that 
> don't exist 
> yet. Should work perfectly well using deferred FK constraints on system 
> tables.
>    Currently system tables don't have foreign keys at all and dependency 
> checking is done 
> by code. Changing that can make code simpler and robust.
>
>
Temporary invalidated state is incompatible with DDL+DML using the
being-changed DDL:

create table t (n integer, c computed by (f(n)));

-- create function f ...

commit;

----

drop function f;

select * from t; -- ??


Adriano


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