Commit 0189c42f authored by Bruce Momjian's avatar Bruce Momjian

Add contraint exclusion section to contraint docs.

Takahiro Itagaki
parent 54943734
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<chapter id="ddl">
<title>Data Definition</title>
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<xref linkend="sql-createtable" endterm="sql-createtable-title">.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Exclusion constraints</title>
<indexterm>
<primary>exclusion constraint</primary>
</indexterm>
<indexterm>
<primary>constraint</primary>
<secondary>exclusion</secondary>
</indexterm>
<para>
Exclusion constraints ensure that if any two rows are compared on
the specified columns or expressions using the specified operators,
at least one of these operator comparisons will be false. The syntax is:
<programlisting>
CREATE TABLE circles (
c circle,
EXCLUDE USING gist (c WITH &amp;&amp;)
);
</programlisting>
</para>
<para>
See also <link linkend="SQL-CREATETABLE-EXCLUDE"><command>CREATE
TABLE ... CONSTRAINT ... EXCLUDE</></link> for details.
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="ddl-system-columns">
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