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* Exclude constraints not shown ALTER TABLE documentation page
@ 2016-09-19 13:42 onder@citusdata.com
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From: onder@citusdata.com @ 2016-09-19 13:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
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The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/sql-altertable.html
Description:
Minor documentation feedback:
Though it is possible to add EXCLUDE CONSTRAINTs via ALTER TABLE as appears
here
http://thoughts.davisjeff.com/2010/09/25/exclusion-constraints-are-generalized-sql-unique/
we could not see it on the related doc here
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/sql-altertable.html
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* Re: Exclude constraints not shown ALTER TABLE documentation page
@ 2016-09-20 17:33 Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
parent: onder@citusdata.com
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From: Peter Eisentraut @ 2016-09-20 17:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: onder@citusdata.com; pgsql-docs
On 9/19/16 9:42 AM, onder@citusdata.com wrote:
> Though it is possible to add EXCLUDE CONSTRAINTs via ALTER TABLE as appears
> here
> http://thoughts.davisjeff.com/2010/09/25/exclusion-constraints-are-generalized-sql-unique/
> we could not see it on the related doc here
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/sql-altertable.html
The ALTER TABLE page does not mention any specific constraint types,
instead referring to the CREATE TABLE page. So this is not an omission
of exclude constraints, but an intentional way to reduce duplication.
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