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Re: WIP: generalized index constraints

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Cc: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-09-15T21:52:35Z
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Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> writes:
> On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 14:42 -0700, Jeff Davis wrote:
>> operator constraints
>> operator exclusion constraints
>> operator conflict constraints
>> conflict operator constraints
>> operator index constraints
>> index constraints
>> generalized index constraints
>> something else?

> Just to add a couple more permutations of Robert Haas's suggestions:

>  exclusion operator constraints
>  exclusive operator constraints

To my ear, "operator exclusion constraints" or "exclusive operator
constraints" seem reasonable; the other permutations of that phrase
simply aren't good English.

I'm not tremendously happy with any of them though...

			regards, tom lane