Exclusion Constraint vs. Constraint Exclusion - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Exclusion Constraint vs. Constraint Exclusion
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Msg-id 20091207215344.GA2905@fetter.org
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Responses Re: Exclusion Constraint vs. Constraint Exclusion  (Stephen Cook <sclists@gmail.com>)
Re: Exclusion Constraint vs. Constraint Exclusion  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: Exclusion Constraint vs. Constraint Exclusion  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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Folks,

We have a very unfortunate naming situation with Jeff Davis's new
feature, namely the shorter name, which is one permutation away from
an existing and entirely unrelated feature: Constraint Exclusion,
which has to do with queries over partitioned tables and like
entities.

Renaming it, which I believe we should do Really Soon(TM), to Operator
[Exclusion] Constraints would fix this problem.

Cheers,
David.
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