On sun, 2007-06-24 at 16:55 +0800, carter ck wrote: > I am experiencing thgis problem since this morning. I seldom heard about > unique key constraint violation to happen when updating a table. > > It happens to 1 or few records at early stage, but then to all. > > My updating command is as following: > > update mytable set my_status='Y' where myid='ABC123567778'; > > Can anyone help? All helps and solutions are appreciated. sounds like you have a UNIQUE constraint involving the column "my_status". did you recently create a new index on this table? what does psql say to: \d mytable gnari