Doc: document that we expect CHECK constraint conditions to be immutable.
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Doc: document that we expect CHECK constraint conditions to be immutable. This restriction is implicit in the check-only-once implementation we use for table and domain constraints, but it wasn't spelled out anywhere, nor was there any advice about how to alter a constraint's behavior safely. Improve that. I was also dissatisfied with the documentation of ALTER DOMAIN VALIDATE CONSTRAINT, which entirely failed to explain the use of that feature; and thence decided that ALTER TABLE VALIDATE CONSTRAINT could be documented better as well. Perhaps we should back-patch this, along with the related commit 36d442a25, but for now I refrained. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/12539.1544107316@sss.pgh.pa.us
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| doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_domain.sgml | modified | +18 −3 |
| doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml | modified | +54 −29 |
| doc/src/sgml/ref/create_domain.sgml | modified | +24 −0 |
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Discussion
- Mutability of domain CHECK constraints 3 messages · 2018-12-06 → 2018-12-29