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-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml6
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml19
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml
index 0d1feaf828c..0aa0f093f23 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml
@@ -86,9 +86,9 @@ ALTER TABLE [ IF EXISTS ] <replaceable class="parameter">name</replaceable>
<phrase>and <replaceable class="parameter">partition_bound_spec</replaceable> is:</phrase>
-IN ( { <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable> | <replaceable class="parameter">string_literal</replaceable> | TRUE | FALSE | NULL } [, ...] ) |
-FROM ( { <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable> | <replaceable class="parameter">string_literal</replaceable> | TRUE | FALSE | MINVALUE | MAXVALUE } [, ...] )
- TO ( { <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable> | <replaceable class="parameter">string_literal</replaceable> | TRUE | FALSE | MINVALUE | MAXVALUE } [, ...] ) |
+IN ( <replaceable class="parameter">partition_bound_expr</replaceable> [, ...] ) |
+FROM ( { <replaceable class="parameter">partition_bound_expr</replaceable> | MINVALUE | MAXVALUE } [, ...] )
+ TO ( { <replaceable class="parameter">partition_bound_expr</replaceable> | MINVALUE | MAXVALUE } [, ...] ) |
WITH ( MODULUS <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable>, REMAINDER <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable> )
<phrase>and <replaceable class="parameter">column_constraint</replaceable> is:</phrase>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml
index 857515ec8f2..22dbc07b238 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml
@@ -87,9 +87,9 @@ class="parameter">referential_action</replaceable> ] [ ON UPDATE <replaceable cl
<phrase>and <replaceable class="parameter">partition_bound_spec</replaceable> is:</phrase>
-IN ( { <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable> | <replaceable class="parameter">string_literal</replaceable> | TRUE | FALSE | NULL } [, ...] ) |
-FROM ( { <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable> | <replaceable class="parameter">string_literal</replaceable> | TRUE | FALSE | MINVALUE | MAXVALUE } [, ...] )
- TO ( { <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable> | <replaceable class="parameter">string_literal</replaceable> | TRUE | FALSE | MINVALUE | MAXVALUE } [, ...] ) |
+IN ( <replaceable class="parameter">partition_bound_expr</replaceable> [, ...] ) |
+FROM ( { <replaceable class="parameter">partition_bound_expr</replaceable> | MINVALUE | MAXVALUE } [, ...] )
+ TO ( { <replaceable class="parameter">partition_bound_expr</replaceable> | MINVALUE | MAXVALUE } [, ...] ) |
WITH ( MODULUS <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable>, REMAINDER <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable> )
<phrase><replaceable class="parameter">index_parameters</replaceable> in <literal>UNIQUE</literal>, <literal>PRIMARY KEY</literal>, and <literal>EXCLUDE</literal> constraints are:</phrase>
@@ -413,12 +413,13 @@ WITH ( MODULUS <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable>, REM
</para>
<para>
- Each of the values specified in
- the <replaceable class="parameter">partition_bound_spec</replaceable> is
- a literal, <literal>NULL</literal>, <literal>MINVALUE</literal>, or
- <literal>MAXVALUE</literal>. Each literal value must be either a
- numeric constant that is coercible to the corresponding partition key
- column's type, or a string literal that is valid input for that type.
+ <replaceable class="parameter">partition_bound_expr</replaceable> is
+ any variable-free expression (subqueries, window functions, aggregate
+ functions, and set-returning functions are not allowed). Its data type
+ must match the data type of the corresponding partition key column.
+ The expression is evaluated once at table creation time, so it can
+ even contain volatile expressions such as
+ <literal><function>CURRENT_TIMESTAMP</function></literal>.
</para>
<para>