"David E. Wheeler" <da...@kineticode.com> writes:
> On Nov 13, 2009, at 8:39 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> alter table foo add constraint bar exclude (a check with =, b check with =);
> I've been meaning to comment on this syntax one more time; apologies for the
> bike-shedding. But I'm wondering if the "CHECK" is strictly necessary there,
> since the WITH seems adequate, and there was some discussion before about the
> CHECK keyword possibly causing confusion with check constraints.
I had been manfully restraining myself from re-opening this discussion,
but yeah I was thinking the same thing. The original objection to using
just WITH was that it wasn't very clear what you were doing "with" the
operator; but that was back when we had a different initial keyword for
the construct. EXCLUDE ... WITH ... seems to match up pretty naturally.
regards, tom lane
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