Re: Naming of new EXCLUDE constraints

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Naming of new EXCLUDE constraints
Date: 2010-04-13 02:56:23
Message-ID: p2r603c8f071004121956z14341cc8r52a0cf23888cfbc2@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)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

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