On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Mike Mascari wrote: > Stephan Szabo wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Mike Mascari wrote: > > > > > >>I'd like to ensure that the creation of a department also implies the > >>creation of two to eight projects; no more, no less: > > >>Is there no way to achieve the above stated goal in the server? Must I > >>rely on the application to enforce consistency? > > > > > > Well. It's not exactly meant to be a user facing feature, but check out > > CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER. > > Thanks, Stephan! > > I read the disclaimer "It is not intended for general use" but am > curious as to why it isn't a user-facing feature? Is it a function of > just exposing a cleaner SQL interface, or is it a function of the > trigger queue having been written after user-defined triggers, or is > there some philosophical argument against allowing user-definable > triggers to be deferred?
I should also add that it's also not likely to get upgraded to handle new trigger features (for example statement triggers) quickly unless someone wants to step up and do so. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org