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Re: operator exclusion constraints

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

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From: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
To: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-11-14T19:35:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 09:11 -0800, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Nov 14, 2009, at 8:55 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > I had been manfully restraining myself from re-opening this discussion,
> > but yeah I was thinking the same thing.  The original objection to using
> > just WITH was that it wasn't very clear what you were doing "with" the
> > operator; but that was back when we had a different initial keyword for
> > the construct.  EXCLUDE ... WITH ... seems to match up pretty naturally.
> 
> You're more man than I, Tom, but yeah, with EXCLUDE, WITH works well on its own, methinks.

Changed in new patch here:

http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/1258226849.708.97.camel@jdavis

Regards,
	Jeff Davis