Re: operator exclusion constraints - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: operator exclusion constraints
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Msg-id 1257150322.14872.4.camel@fsopti579.F-Secure.com
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In response to Re: operator exclusion constraints  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 22:42 +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> The current patch writes the syntax like this
>   EXCLUSION USING gist (c CHECK WITH &&)
> makes it look like a table constraint, yet it clearly refers to a
> single
> column. That looks very clumsy to read, to my eyes.

I think the word CHECK should be avoided completely in this syntax, to
avoid confusion with CHECK constraints.



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