Re: Exclusion Constraint vs. Constraint Exclusion

From: Stephen Cook <sclists(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Exclusion Constraint vs. Constraint Exclusion
Date: 2009-12-07 22:36:43
Message-ID: 4B1D837B.1090400@gmail.com
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David Fetter wrote:
> 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.

+1

I thought I was just too dumb to follow the conversation.

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