Re: deferring/disabling unique index

Oleg Lebedev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to know if there is a way to defer or disable a unique index on a
> table during an update. One way would be to set indisunique to false,
> perform update and then set to true. But, this seems to be an ugly
> solution.
>
> I've posted a similar message 6 months ago and at that time deferring
> unique constraints was on a todo list. I wonder if this has been added
> to 7.4.1 release. If not, what is the best way to disable an index on a
> table?

It is still not done, and no one is working on it.

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