Re: Clarify INCLUDING COMMENTS behavior in CREATE TABLE and CREATE FOREIGN TABLE docs
Matheus Alcantara <matheusssilv97@gmail.com>
From: "Matheus Alcantara" <matheusssilv97@gmail.com>
To: "Fujii Masao" <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, <pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-02-19T15:09:57Z
Lists: pgsql-docs
On Tue Feb 17, 2026 at 11:36 AM -03, Fujii Masao wrote: > Hi, > >> Comments for the copied columns, constraints, and indexes will be copied. > > The above current description of INCLUDING COMMENTS in the CREATE TABLE docs > appears inaccurate and incomplete. It says that comments on constraints are > copied, but in practice only comments on CHECK and NOT NULL constraints > are copied; comments on other constraints (such as primary keys) are not. > In addition, comments on extended statistics are copied, but this is not > documented. > > The CREATE FOREIGN TABLE docs has a similar omission: comments on extended > statistics are also copied, but this is not mentioned. > > Therefore I'd like to propose the attached patch to clarify the actual behavior > of INCLUDING COMMENTS. Thoughts? > Hi, thanks for the patch. The changes make sense to me, it sounds more clear. I've performed some tests and the documentation seems correct about what comments are actually copied. -- Matheus Alcantara EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com
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doc: Clarify INCLUDING COMMENTS behavior in CREATE TABLE LIKE.
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