On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 23:31,=20
00jkxma2vt@sneakemail.com (Alban Hertroys haramrae-at-gmail.com=20
|pg-gts/Basic|) wrote:
>On 6 February 2013 12:56, Chris Angelico <rosuav@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=20
this makes it DEFFERABLE.
Taking a different tangent ...
Is there anything in the SQL standards about NOT NULL=20
constraints being deferrable?
To my mind we should not consider implementing non-standard=20
behaviour, but if something is in the standard I can't see why=20
it shouldn't be implemented, esp. when there is no compulsion=20
for it to be used.
Regards
Gavan Schneider