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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/postgresql/ext.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/postgresql/ext.py | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/postgresql/ext.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/postgresql/ext.py index 22604955d..f382af86f 100644 --- a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/postgresql/ext.py +++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/postgresql/ext.py @@ -164,15 +164,19 @@ class ExcludeConstraint(ColumnCollectionConstraint): :param \*elements: A sequence of two tuples of the form ``(column, operator)`` where - "column" is a SQL expression element or the name of a column as - string, most typically a :class:`_schema.Column` object, - and "operator" is a string containing the operator to use. + "column" is either a :class:`_schema.Column` object, or a SQL + expression element (e.g. ``func.int8range(table.from, table.to)``) + or the name of a column as string, and "operator" is a string + containing the operator to use (e.g. `"&&"` or `"="`). + In order to specify a column name when a :class:`_schema.Column` object is not available, while ensuring that any necessary quoting rules take effect, an ad-hoc :class:`_schema.Column` or :func:`_expression.column` - object should be used. ``column`` may also be a string SQL - expression when passed as :func:`_expression.literal_column` + object should be used. + The ``column`` may also be a string SQL expression when + passed as :func:`_expression.literal_column` or + :func:`_expression.text` :param name: Optional, the in-database name of this constraint. |