Re: small exclusion constraints patch
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-05-30T03:40:46Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes: > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> Or, to put it differently: if nobody's done that in the past twenty >> years, why is it likely to happen before 9.1? > Hmm. Well suppose we bet a dollar on whether that will happen or not. > In fact, if you promise not to read > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-05/msg01175.php I'll > make it two dollars. Yes, I've seen Jeff's example. It's a cute hack but somehow I doubt that there is going to be a land rush to implement such things. Can you point to any pre-existing example where anyone actually asked for the ability to do that? regards, tom lane