Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 4:36 AM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Mind you, I don't think "inference specification" is very good
> >> terminology, but what's there right now is just wrong.
> >
> > It doesn't appear in the documentation. The term "inference
> > specification" only appears where it's necessary to precisely describe
> > the input to unique index inference.
>
> Well, we can change this to say "inference specification", but I still
> think calling it the "ON CONFLICT" clause would be clearer in this
> context.
TBH I'm kinda inclined to sort this out by removing all usage of the
word "inference" everywhere --- error messages and code comments and
documentation wording, and replace it with some other wording as
appropriate for each context.
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