On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:06:58PM -0600, Jaime Casanova wrote:
Jaime,
> i was looking at the unsuported features in the RC4
> docs and found this:
>
> F671| Enhanced integrity management| Subqueries in CHECK| intentionally
> omitted
>
> Why is it *intentionally omitted*?
> Is it to hard? or has some side-effects?
Because it's too expensive to check. If you have a CHECK using a SELECT
against a second table, you should re-verify the SELECT every time the
second table suffers an UPDATE, INSERT or DELETE.
The user can replace the CHECK with a foreign key or a trigger, so there
is no loss of functionality.
--
Alvaro Herrera (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
"No single strategy is always right (Unless the boss says so)"
(Larry Wall)
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