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