Re: Question about RI checks

Florian Pflug <fgp@phlo.org> wrote:

> So in conclusion, the lock avoids raising constraint violation errors in

> a few cases in READ COMMITTED mode. In REPEATABLE READ mode, it converts some
> constraint violation errors into serialization failures. Or at least that's
> how it looks to me.

It doesn't seem like this analysis considers all of the available ON
DELETE and ON UPDATE behaviors available.  Besides RESTRICT there is
CASCADE, SET NULL, SET DEFAULT, and NO ACTION.  Some of those
require updating the referencing rows.

>> And even if the lock serves a purpose, KEY SHARE is an odd choice, since
>> the referencing field is, in general, not a "key" in this sense.
>
> Hm, yeah, that's certainly weird.

I don't think I understand that either.

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