2011-03-11

Merge ignores check constraint

It was a while ago when we noticed that our enabled and validated constraints were not respected by our 11.2.0.1 database. The reason for this appeared to be a merge clause updating the rows and ignoring the constraints. A bug 9285259 was created.
Now the bug will be fixed in version 12.1 and hopefully 11.2.0.3 also. There is a patch available on top of 11.2.0.2 version. The patch installed online. Now we are receiving ORA-02290: check constraint violated as supposed. Also workaround was introduced. Our merge clause had only update part. By adding insert or delete part to the merge the constraint is noticed without the patch.

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