Hi Jim,

What is Netfrastructure? Is it a database?
Do you have links?

Steen

--- In IB-Architect@y..., Jim Starkey <jas@n...> wrote:
> At 09:09 PM 10/23/01 +0200, Martijn Tonies wrote:
> >Hi Jim,
> >
> >coming to this, is there an easy way to implement deactivation of
> >constraints? I believe (haven't looked into the source of FB) that
(almost)
> >all constraints are enforced by triggers, right?
> >
>
> I could probably to made to by creating the implicit triggers with
> known classes. Probably would be a good idea.
>
> Netfrastructure, incidentally, while supporting (and using, heavily)
> primary and foreign keys, does not enforce referential integrity
> for a couple of reasons. First, good programs (and Netfrastructure
> programs are good or I won't let them at it) check that stuff as
> a matter of good person hygiene, so having the system repeat the
> check is a waste of time (though admittedly cache hits). Second,
> there are many cases where the index required would be grotesquely
> horrible (many, many duplicates).
>
> So, t'were it up to me, I toss in some DDL system to turn off
> referential integrity check on a key by key basis. Which would
> also probably obviate the need to deactivate constraints.
>
> So yes, may be, and no. May I be more obtuse?
>
>
>
> Jim Starkey