On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 12:51 AM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Jim Nasby <jim@nasby.net> wrote:
>> Well, the usual example for exclusion constraints is resource scheduling
>> (ie: scheduling what room a class will be held in). In that context is it
>> hard to believe that you might want to MERGE a set of new classroom
>> assignments in?
>
> So you schedule a class that clashes with 3 other classes, and you
> want to update all 3 rows/classes with details from your one row
> proposed for insertion?
Well, perhaps you want to mark the events as conflicting with your new event?
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greg