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Naming of new EXCLUDE constraints

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 2010-04-13T01:28:51Z
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 22:12 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Simon Riggs wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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".
> 
> If that is the keyword then that is what people will use, agreed.
> 
> That is poor English, but I think we can reword the sentences to allow
> that phrase to make sense.
> 
> e.g. Added capability for EXCLUDE constraints.

I have modified the documentation with the attached patch to call this
new features "exclude constraints".  Is this what everyone wants?

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