Enrico Sirola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, I'm facing a problem I'm not able to solve with postgresql: > usually updating or deleting time-varying data means to temporary > violate a constraint in a transaction but ensuring that at the end of > the transaction the table(s) is(are) in a consistent state, but this > seems impossible to do because trigger constraints are not deferrable.
Use CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER: http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/sql-createconstraint.html (This statement has been there all along, but was marked as deprecated in pre-8.3 releases, for now-forgotten reasons.) regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
