Re: table is mutating - trigger may not see it

A copy of this was sent to "Markus Jäger" <1055-436_at_online.de> (if that email address didn't require changing) On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 00:17:42 +0100, you wrote:

>Oracle 8.0.5
>I want a after-insert-trigger for tabel A to insert new data in a second
>table B that has a foreign key constraint to the table A.
>Even though I defined the constraint with the option DEFERRABLE INITIALLY
>DEFERRED is seems like the insert command for table B within the
>after-insert-trigger for table A wants the foreign key constraint checked
>immediately and therefore ends up in an oracle error, because the process of
>checking envolves reading table A.
>Is there any solution to that? (besides inactivating the constraint?)
>Thanx for any hints and comments!
>Markus
>

see http://osi.oracle.com/~tkyte/Mutate/index.html

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