Re: [SQL] Strange behaviour updating primary key column.

2004-06-21 Thread Richard Huxton
Luis Neves wrote: In the above table why does the query: UPDATE "story" SET id = (id + 1500); fails with: "ERROR: duplicate key violates unique constraint 'story_pkey'" (I have 6000 records in the table with "id" spanning from 1 to 6000) I find this behaviour strange, SQL is a set based language,

[SQL] Strange behaviour updating primary key column.

2004-06-20 Thread Luis Neves
[Sorry if this is a double post.] Hello all, [Postgresql 7.4.2] CREATE TABLE "story" ( "id" int4 NOT NULL, "title" varchar (100) NOT NULL, "body" text NOT NULL, "entryDate" timestamptz NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT "story_pkey" PRIMARY KEY (id) ); In the above table why does the query: UPDATE "story" S