> I can see why you would want that, but I'd say that's a separate feature
> you need to explicitly request when creating the constraint. Consider
> what happens in the "old data is garbage, but I want the new data to be
> validated" use case if we allow constraint exclusion on NOT VALID
> constraints.
Yeah, I guess what I'm suggesting is that we should have an ALTER TABLE
... VALID DONT CHECK option.
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