Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > Sure, UNIQUE constraints are not deferrable. With normal constraints > you can defer the check until the end of transaction and be in an > inconsistant state for while. However, PostgreSQL doesn't support > this for uniqueness checks.
Note that even a nondeferred unique constraint would let the command proceed because a nondeferred constraint is checked after the statement, not at seemingly random points during it. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster