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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: KES <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Typo in doc or wrong EXCLUDE implementation
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 09:00:40 -0400
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On Wed, Aug  8, 2018 at 01:55:53PM +0300, KES wrote:
> I do not know many internals and maybe wrong.
> 
> But from my point of view with my current knowledge. 
> If such exclusion constraint would be marked as UNIQUE we can use it for FK while implementing temporal/bi-temporal tables.
> 
> And this will be simplify relationing while implementing them.

Yes, it would work, but doing that only for equality would be surprising
to many people because exclusion constraints are more general than
equality comparisons.

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