Return-Path: owner-postman Received: from localhost.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.3) with SMTP id WAA12648 for postgres-redist; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 22:05:47 -0800 Resent-From: POSTGRES mailing list Resent-Message-Id: <199502100605.WAA12648@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: owner-postman@postgres.Berkeley.EDU X-Return-Path: owner-postman Received: from faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU (faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.37.53]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.3) with ESMTP id WAA12638 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 22:05:46 -0800 Received: from localhost.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.3) with SMTP id WAA01385; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 22:05:43 -0800 Message-Id: <199502100605.WAA01385@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU> X-Authentication-Warning: faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU: Host localhost.Berkeley.EDU didn't use HELO protocol From: aoki@cs.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki) To: Mike Doughney Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: "Non-functional update" bogus notice problems Reply-To: aoki@cs.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki) In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 9 Feb 1995 17:45:02 -0500 <199502092245.AA11024@ss1.digex.net> Date: Thu, 09 Feb 95 22:05:43 -0800 X-Sender: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU Resent-To: postgres-redist@postgres.Berkeley.EDU X-Mts: smtp Resent-Date: Thu, 09 Feb 95 22:05:47 -0800 Resent-XMts: smtp Mike Doughney writes: > The message is spurious in that subsequent inspection of the classes > shows that the replacements did take effect (the update was > 'functional'). non-functional update doesn't mean that an update did not occur. it just means that an attempt was made to update a row that had already been updated in that transaction. rows can be "revisited" due to (e.g.) interactions between the update process and index traversal. -- Paul M. Aoki | University of California at Berkeley aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU | Dept. of EECS, Computer Science Division (#1776) | Berkeley, CA 94720-1776 ============================================================================== To add/remove yourself to/from the POSTGRES mailing list: send mail with the subject line ADD or DEL to "postgres-request@postgres.Berkeley.EDU". If this fails, send mail to "post_questions@postgres.Berkeley.EDU" and a human will deal with it. DO NOT post to the "postgres" mailing list. ============================================================================== URL: http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres/