Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yeah, what I've been visualizing is a list of "tentative duplicates" --- > that is, you do the immediate unique check same as now, and if it passes > (which hopefully is most of the time) then you're in the clear.
I don't see how you're in the clear. If session A does an insert and it doesn't see a duplicate and doesn't commit, but then B does an insert and sees the duplicate from A and marks his tentative, and then commits, shouldn't B's commit succeed? Then when A commits shouldn't his fail? So A still has to recheck even if there was no sign of a duplicate when he inserted. Unless there's some way for B to indicate to A that his insert has become tentative then I think you have to resign yourself to checking all deferred unique constraints, not just ones that seem suspect. -- greg ---------------------------(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