5 Commits (c044b50d199cf592eba2ac84f48cf0fcb5fb65f8)

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Peter Eisentraut	89f908a6d0	Add temporal FOREIGN KEY contraints ... Add PERIOD clause to foreign key constraint definitions. This is supported for range and multirange types. Temporal foreign keys check for range containment instead of equality. This feature matches the behavior of the SQL standard temporal foreign keys, but it works on PostgreSQL's native ranges instead of SQL's "periods", which don't exist in PostgreSQL (yet). Reference actions ON {UPDATE,DELETE} {CASCADE,SET NULL,SET DEFAULT} are not supported yet. (previously committed as 34768ee361, reverted by 8aee330af55; this is essentially unchanged from those) Author: Paul A. Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Reviewed-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA+renyUApHgSZF9-nd-a0+OPGharLQLO=mDHcY4_qQ0+noCUVg@mail.gmail.com	1 year ago
Peter Eisentraut	fc0438b4e8	Add temporal PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE constraints ... Add WITHOUT OVERLAPS clause to PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE constraints. These are backed by GiST indexes instead of B-tree indexes, since they are essentially exclusion constraints with = for the scalar parts of the key and && for the temporal part. (previously committed as 46a0cd4cef, reverted by 46a0cd4cefb; the new part is this:) Because 'empty' && 'empty' is false, the temporal PK/UQ constraint allowed duplicates, which is confusing to users and breaks internal expectations. For instance, when GROUP BY checks functional dependencies on the PK, it allows selecting other columns from the table, but in the presence of duplicate keys you could get the value from any of their rows. So we need to forbid empties. This all means that at the moment we can only support ranges and multiranges for temporal PK/UQs, unlike the original patch (above). Documentation and tests for this are added. But this could conceivably be extended by introducing some more general support for the notion of "empty" for other types. Author: Paul A. Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Reviewed-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA+renyUApHgSZF9-nd-a0+OPGharLQLO=mDHcY4_qQ0+noCUVg@mail.gmail.com	1 year ago
Peter Eisentraut	8aee330af5	Revert temporal primary keys and foreign keys ... This feature set did not handle empty ranges correctly, and it's now too late for PostgreSQL 17 to fix it. The following commits are reverted: 6db4598fcb Add stratnum GiST support function 46a0cd4cef Add temporal PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE constraints 86232a49a4 Fix comment on gist_stratnum_btree 030e10ff1a Rename pg_constraint.conwithoutoverlaps to conperiod a88c800deb Use daterange and YMD in without_overlaps tests instead of tsrange. 5577a71fb0 Use half-open interval notation in without_overlaps tests 34768ee361 Add temporal FOREIGN KEY contraints 482e108cd3 Add test for REPLICA IDENTITY with a temporal key c3db1f30cb doc: clarify PERIOD and WITHOUT OVERLAPS in CREATE TABLE 144c2ce0cc Fix ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING/UPDATE for temporal indexes Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/d0b64a7a-dfe4-4b84-a906-c7dedfa40a3e@eisentraut.org	2 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	34768ee361	Add temporal FOREIGN KEY contraints ... Add PERIOD clause to foreign key constraint definitions. This is supported for range and multirange types. Temporal foreign keys check for range containment instead of equality. This feature matches the behavior of the SQL standard temporal foreign keys, but it works on PostgreSQL's native ranges instead of SQL's "periods", which don't exist in PostgreSQL (yet). Reference actions ON {UPDATE,DELETE} {CASCADE,SET NULL,SET DEFAULT} are not supported yet. Author: Paul A. Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Reviewed-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA+renyUApHgSZF9-nd-a0+OPGharLQLO=mDHcY4_qQ0+noCUVg@mail.gmail.com	2 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	46a0cd4cef	Add temporal PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE constraints ... Add WITHOUT OVERLAPS clause to PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE constraints. These are backed by GiST indexes instead of B-tree indexes, since they are essentially exclusion constraints with = for the scalar parts of the key and && for the temporal part. Author: Paul A. Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Reviewed-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA+renyUApHgSZF9-nd-a0+OPGharLQLO=mDHcY4_qQ0+noCUVg@mail.gmail.com	2 years ago