Tom,
> Josh, you don't know what you're talking about. The backend's
> capabilities for this have not moved an inch since 8.1 (transient bugs
> in its error checking do not represent an advance in capability),
Hmmm ... was this an unapplied patch? We certainly had it working on the
benchmark machine.
Researching ...
> and furthermore I'm not seeing anyplace in the SQL spec that suggests
> the nullable side of an outer join should be updatable.
Oh, no, what should happen is that the outer join portion of the query doesn't
get locked, rather than a fatal exception. That behavior is expected by the
J2EE certification, so it's at least somewhat industry-standard.
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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco
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