Re: Minor improvements in alter_table.sgml

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Etsuro Fujita
<fujita(dot)etsuro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
> Attached is a patch to improve the manual page for the ALTER TABLE command.

Do we really need to add a section for "type_name" when we already
have a section for "OF type_name"?

constraint_name is also used for adding a constraint using an index.
So it could not only be a constraint to alter, validate, or drop, but
also a new constraint name to be added. Honestly, how much value is
there in even having a section for this? Do we really want to
document constraint_name as "name of an existing constraint, or the
name of a new constraint to be added"? It would be accurate, then,
but it also doesn't really tell you anything you didn't know already.

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