Hi, On 2016/02/17 14:34, Regina Obe wrote: > I'm guessing this is by design but just wanted to confirm that since it > makes this feature not as useful for us. > > It also wasn't absolutely clear to me from the documentation. > > We are running PostgreSQL 9.5.1 and if we do something like: > > CREATE TABLE test(field1 varchar(5) primary key, field2 varchar(3)); > > INSERT INTO test(field1, field2) VALUES ('test','tes'); > > INSERT INTO test(field1,field2) VALUES('test', 'test') > ON CONFLICT(field1) DO NOTHING; > > It triggers an error: > > ERROR: value too long for type character varying(3) > > I think it does this for check constraints too. > > > Even though the record under consideration would be thrown out anyway.
I think the error occurs long before it would/could be determined that it won't be inserted anyway (the latter being execution time). It would be quite out-of-place to document such behaviors under ON CONFLICT or check constraints description, IMHO. Thanks, Amit -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers