On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Tomasz Myrta wrote:
> I've got some tables defined as:
> create table xx (
> some_column references master_table
>
> It means this column is defined by default:
> NOT DEFERRABLE, INITIALLY IMMEDIATE
>
> I tried replacing rows in this table by new ones as:
> set autocommit=off;
> begin;
> set constraints all deferred;
> delete from ....
> insert ...
> insert...
> commit;
> I get "integrity violation"... just after "delete"
>
> If I well understood manual, it works like it should. I'm not sure,
> because if I run this query in pgAdmin2, it works fine (why?) and
> replaces rows as needed.
>
> When I drop this foreign key constraint (not too easy without a
> constraint name) and recreate it as "DEFERRABLE", this query works fine
> also in psql.
>
> My question is: Why my query works fine when using pgAdmin, and it fails
> when using psql?
Hmm, I'd suggest turning on query logging to make sure pgAdmin is doing
what you expect.