On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 23:31, 00jkxma...@sneakemail.com (Alban Hertroys haramrae-at-gmail.com |pg-gts/Basic|) wrote:

On 6 February 2013 12:56, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:

If you get into a taxi and ask
to be driven to New Zealand within the hour, no amount of begging will
get you what you want.


....Unless you get into a taxi in New Zealand.


....Which makes the request effectively NULL, planning to do this makes it DEFFERABLE.


Taking a different tangent ...

Is there anything in the SQL standards about NOT NULL constraints being deferrable?

To my mind we should not consider implementing non-standard behaviour, but if something is in the standard I can't see why it shouldn't be implemented, esp. when there is no compulsion for it to be used.

Regards
Gavan Schneider



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