Re: pgsql: Add contraint exclusion section to contraint docs. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: pgsql: Add contraint exclusion section to contraint docs.
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Msg-id 201004050212.o352CpO05971@momjian.us
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In response to Re: pgsql: Add contraint exclusion section to contraint docs.  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 09:51 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > > 2010/4/1 Bruce Momjian <momjian@postgresql.org>:
> > > > Log Message:
> > > > -----------
> > > > Add contraint exclusion section to contraint docs.
> > > >
> > > > Takahiro Itagaki
> > > >
> > > > Modified Files:
> > > > --------------
> > > > ? ?pgsql/doc/src/sgml:
> > > > ? ? ? ?ddl.sgml (r1.90 -> r1.91)
> > > > ? ? ? ?(http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml?r1=1.90&r2=1.91)
> > >
> > >
> > > Obviously, you mean exclusion constraint and not constraint exclusion
> > > - yet another case of the bad choice of name showing up :P
> > >
> > > (contents of the patch seem to get it right, though)
> >
> > Yea.
>
> How about we call it "exclusivity constraints".
>
> Not much of a change, but helps to differentiate.

Well, the keyword is EXCLUDE so we could call it "EXCLUDE contraints".

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