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Jigneshbharati Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

That the constraints

"Indeed, it is precisely because inconsistencies cannot be tolerated, not even if they are never visible to more than one transaction at a time, that the constraints need to be enforced in the first place."
Introduction to Database Systems, J. Date

What is the grammatical form and function of "that the constraints...place"?

Is "that" a conjunction or a relative pronoun? How do we know that?

  

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Indeed, it is precisely because inconsistencies cannot be tolerated, not even if they are never visible to more than one transaction at a time, that the constraints need to be enforced in the first place. It's a subordinator (your conjunction). The underlined element is not a relative clause, so even if "that" were a relative pronoun, which it isn't, it wouldn't be one here.

— BillJ

  • Indeed, it is precisely because inconsistencies cannot be tolerated, not even if they are never visible to more than one transaction at a time, that the constraints need to be enforced in the first place.
  • It's a subordinator (your conjunction).
  • The underlined element is not a relative clause, so even if "that" were a relative pronoun, which it isn't, it wouldn't be one here.
  • The that clause here is a declarative content clause functioning as a complement.
  • In this case, it expresses the outcome (or result) of inconsistencies not being tolerated.
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Indeed, it is precisely because inconsistencies cannot be tolerated, not even if they are never visible to more than one transaction at a time, that the constraints need to be enforced in the first place.

It's a subordinator (your conjunction).

The underlined element is not a relative clause, so even if "that" were a relative pronoun, which it isn't, it wouldn't be on

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