On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 09:56 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > Ooh, that's kind of neat. But I think you'd need EXCLUSIVE (a, b) BY
> > (=, =), since it could equally well be EXCLUSIVE (a, b) BY (=, &&).
>
> Yeah, we definitely want some parentheses delimiting the expression.
> EXCLUSIVE still feels like the wrong part-of-speech though. How
> about EXCLUDING (...) BY ... instead?
I think EXCLUDING conflicts with the EXCLUDING in LIKE. Also, it becomes
a little more difficult to place the access method clause, because
"EXCLUDING USING gist" doesn't sound great.
Regards,Jeff Davis
