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 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers