Re: Exclusion Constraint vs. Constraint Exclusion

On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:20:45 -0500 Tom Lane wrote:

> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> > If we do need to do this, perhaps we should change the older parameter
> > to be partition_exclusion.
> 
> Yeah, if we do want to do something about this then changing the name of
> the existing GUC would be a lot less work.  However, partition_exclusion
> seems to imply that it *only* applies to partitioned tables, which is
> not the case...

It is less coding work - but it will for sure confuse the users.


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