Re: Typo in doc or wrong EXCLUDE implementation

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: KES <kes-kes(at)yandex(dot)ru>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com
Subject: Re: Typo in doc or wrong EXCLUDE implementation
Date: 2018-08-08 15:02:39
Message-ID: 20180808150239.6gp6vgisxcempyoh@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2018-Aug-08, KES wrote:

> I do not know many internals and maybe wrong.
>
> But from my point of view with my current knowledge.
> If such exclusion constraint would be marked as UNIQUE we can use it for FK while implementing temporal/bi-temporal tables.
>
> And this will be simplify relationing while implementing them.

I think what you're looking for is "inclusion constraints" from Jeff
Davis:

https://postgr.es/m/1423354088.12308.117.camel@jeff-desktop

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