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Commit cd203f33 authored by Jan Wieck's avatar Jan Wieck
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Avoid primary key lookup (and lock) if foreign key does not change

on UPDATE.

This get's rid of the long standing annoyance that updating a row
that has foreign keys locks all the referenced rows even if the
foreign key values do not change.

The trick is to actually do a check identical to NO ACTION after an
eventually done UPDATE in the SET DEFAULT case. Since a SET DEFAULT
operation should have moved referencing rows to a new "home", a following
NO ACTION check can only fail if the column defaults of the referencing
table resulted in the key we actually deleted. Thanks to Stephan.

Jan
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