Re: Naming of new EXCLUDE constraints
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>,
Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-04-13T02:56:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote: > 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? I don't think we should be changing this without input from a lot more people. We had a very, very long dicussion of this when this was initially under development. Changing it now seems like a good way to reopen a can of worms. ...Robert