2014-09-04 15:24 GMT+02:00 Jan Wieck <j...@wi3ck.info>:

> On 09/04/2014 01:14 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>
>> 2014-09-03 23:19 GMT+02:00 Hannu Krosing <ha...@2ndquadrant.com
>>     A more SQL-ish way of doing the same could probably be called COMMAND
>>     CONSTRAINTS
>>     and look something like this
>>
>>     SELECT
>>     ...
>>     CHECK (ROWCOUNT BETWEEN 0 AND 1);
>>
>>
>> It is very near to my proposed ASSERT
>>
>
> Only if the ASSERT syntax would become part of the original statement, it
> is supposed to check. In Hannu's command constraint example above, the
> statement that causes the error, and thus will be logged and become
> identified by the error message, is the actual SELECT (or other DML
> statement).
>

this is valid argument.

On second hand, I proposed a ASSERT that was not based on expressions only.
There is not a technical issue to write assert with knowledge of related
statement.


>
> I think I like the COMMAND CONSTRAINT the best so far.
>

I not, because when it will not be part of SQL, than parser in plpgsql will
be more complex. You have to inject SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE

Pavel


>
>
> Regards,
> Jan
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