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Mike Matrigali commented on DERBY-532:
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should there be changes to update code in addition to insert code, or is this 
one of the benefits of doing this work at lowest level where all updates on 
btree's are turned into deletes and inserts?

> Support deferrable constraints
> ------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DERBY-532
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-532
>             Project: Derby
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: SQL
>            Reporter: Jörg von Frantzius
>            Assignee: Dag H. Wanvik
>              Labels: derby_triage10_11
>         Attachments: deferredConstraints.html, deferredConstraints.html, 
> deferredConstraints.html, deferredConstraints.html, derby-532-import-1.diff, 
> derby-532-import-1.status, derby-532-import-2.diff, 
> derby-532-syntax-binding-dict-1.diff, derby-532-syntax-binding-dict-1.status, 
> derby-532-syntax-binding-dict-2.diff, derby-532-syntax-binding-dict-2.status, 
> derby-532-syntax-binding-dict-all-1.diff, 
> derby-532-testAlterConstraintInvalidation.diff, 
> derby-532-testAlterConstraintInvalidation.status, derby-532-unique-pk-1.diff, 
> derby-532-unique-pk-1.status, derby-532-unique-pk-2.diff, 
> derby-532-xa-1.diff, derby-532-xa-2.diff
>
>
> In many situations it is desirable to have constraints checking taking place 
> only at transaction commit time, and not before. If e.g. there is a chain of 
> foreign key constraints between tables, insert statements have to be ordered 
> to avoid constraint violations. If foreign key references are circular, the 
> DML has to be split into insert statements and subsequent update statements 
> by the user.
> In other words, with deferred constraints checking, life is much easier for 
> the user. Also it can create problems with softwares such as 
> object-relational mapping tools that are not prepared for statement ordering 
> and thus depend on deferred constraints checking.



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