Re: Naming of new EXCLUDE constraints

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-04-13T17:11:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane escribió:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.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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