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| author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2025-04-10 14:49:10 -0400 |
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| committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2025-04-10 14:49:10 -0400 |
| commit | d89335eea67c1cb55b03d5235320cc107287b59a (patch) | |
| tree | 30bd94f7443806bf2500ec8189610712e9433c50 /doc/src | |
| parent | f27eb0325b7b2cff3b880fa669913693849521dc (diff) | |
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Doc: remove long-obsolete advice about generated constraint names.
It's been twenty years since we generated constraint names that
look like "$N". So this advice about double-quoting such names
is well past its sell-by date, and now it merely seems confusing.
Reported-by: Yaroslav Saburov <y.saburov@gmail.com>
Author: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/174393459040.678.17810152410419444783@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 13
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml | 3 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml index d2082b7e88e..fcd1cb85352 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml @@ -1764,9 +1764,6 @@ ALTER TABLE products ALTER COLUMN product_no SET NOT NULL; <programlisting> ALTER TABLE products DROP CONSTRAINT some_name; </programlisting> - (If you are dealing with a generated constraint name like <literal>$2</literal>, - don't forget that you'll need to double-quote it to make it a valid - identifier.) </para> <para> |