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Dag H. Wanvik edited comment on DERBY-532 at 11/19/13 1:47 PM:
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(re SortObserver & friends): I think the changes are pretty small, and the 
alternative would be to make separate sorting passes (one for each deferrable 
constraint/index on a table) with new code to check the deferrables; not 
convinced that's worth the extra amount of code and redundancy. For the moment, 
I'd like to keep these changes.


was (Author: dagw):
(re SortObserver & friends): I think the changes are pretty small, and the 
alternative would be to make separate sorting passes (one for each index on a 
table) with new code to check the deferrables; not convinced that's worth the 
extra amount of code and redundancy. For the moment, I'd like to keep these 
changes.

> 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-import-3.diff, 
> derby-532-import-3.status, derby-532-more-tests-1.diff, 
> derby-532-more-tests-1.stat, derby-532-serializable-scan-1.diff, 
> derby-532-serializable-scan-2.diff, derby-532-serializable-scan-2.stat, 
> 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-unique-pk-3.diff, derby-532-unique-pk-3.status, 
> derby-532-xa-1.diff, derby-532-xa-2.diff, derby-532-xa-3.diff, 
> derby-532-xa-3.status
>
>
> 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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