On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 00:02, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > > > > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Changes > > > > > > ------- > > > > > > Allow superuser (dba?) the ability to turn off foreign key checks/all > > > > > > constraints/triggers, not settable from postgresql.conf? > > > > > > > > > > feature, not bug fix, no? > > > > > > > > It became important when everyone realized that 7.4 would be first major > > > > upgrade with full foreign key checking --- prior to that we did CREATE > > > > CONSTRAINT TRIGGER that didn't check data. Basically, that's how it got > > > > on the open item list. > > > > Altho important, it is still a feature, and as such, should not be > > critical to holding up the release ... > > That's all I need --- a consensus that is isn't significant enough to be > on this list. >
Does this prevent me from recreating databases that might have improper data in the foreign key fields? If i would have been able to upgrade these database in all prior versions but will now be prevented from upgrading, then this is really a bug fix imho. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly