| From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
|---|---|
| To: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
| Cc: | PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Exclusion Constraint vs. Constraint Exclusion |
| Date: | 2009-12-08 00:57:38 |
| Message-ID: | 1260233858.3665.188.camel@ebony |
| Views: | Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email |
| Thread: | |
| Lists: | pgsql-hackers |
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 13:53 -0800, David Fetter wrote:
> We have a very unfortunate naming situation with Jeff Davis's new
> feature, namely the shorter name, which is one permutation away from
> an existing and entirely unrelated feature: Constraint Exclusion,
> which has to do with queries over partitioned tables and like
> entities.
I agree, though with partitioning patch about to become reality the name
confusion will be less noticeable.
> Renaming it, which I believe we should do Really Soon(TM), to Operator
> [Exclusion] Constraints would fix this problem.
If we do need to do this, perhaps we should change the older parameter
to be partition_exclusion.
--
Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
| From | Date | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Message | Ashish | 2009-12-08 01:04:58 | Re: Need a mentor, and a project. |
| Previous Message | Koichi Suzuki | 2009-12-08 00:54:02 | Re: [HACKERS] New PostgreSQL Committers |