Re: doc: create table improvements

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

To: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2024-04-24T10:30:30Z

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Doc: declutter CREATE TABLE synopsis.
- a6d26e0fb29b 19 (unreleased) landed
Remove support for unlogged on partitioned tables
- e2bab2d79204 18.0 cited

 > +   The reliability characteristics of a table are governed by its
 > +   persistence mode.  The default mode is described
 > +   <link linkend="wal-reliability">here</link>
 > +   There are two alternative modes that can be specified during
 > +   table creation:
 > +   <link linkend="sql-createtable-temporary">temporary</link> and
 > +   <link linkend="sql-createtable-unlogged">unlogged</link>.

Not sure reliability is the best word here.  I mean, a temporary table 
isn't any less reliable than any other table.  It just does different 
things.