Re: Naming of new EXCLUDE constraints

Tom Lane escribió:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> >> Fine, then we will just have to live with "exclusion constraints" and
> >> "contraint exclusion".
>
> > I am not necessarily 100% averse to changing it... just saying that it
> > shouldn't be done unless we have a clear consensus to overrule the
> > previous consensus.
>
> Well, I'm completely unimpressed with the proposed text, which includes
> phrases like "uniqueness and exclude constraints". That leaves nothing
> but the impression that these people don't speak the English too good.

I think a simple fix would be to say "don't confuse exclusion contraints
with constraint exclusion" somewhere (presumably in documentation for
both features), just to raise awareness of the difference.

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