pgsql: Doc: mention foreign keys can reference unique indexes

From: David Rowley <drowley(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Doc: mention foreign keys can reference unique indexes
Date: 2024-01-29 21:15:39
Message-ID: E1rUYyh-003jrt-18@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Doc: mention foreign keys can reference unique indexes

We seem to have only documented a foreign key can reference the columns of
a primary key or unique constraint. Here we adjust the documentation
to mention columns in a non-partial unique index can be mentioned too.

The header comment for transformFkeyCheckAttrs() also didn't mention
unique indexes, so fix that too. In passing make that header comment
reflect reality in the various other aspects where it deviated from it.

Bug: 18295
Reported-by: Gilles PARC
Author: Laurenz Albe, David Rowley
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/18295-0ed0fac5c9f7b17b%40postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 12

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/c85977d8fef7b18f69e0be72923ddb8dcc8165b5

Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml | 20 ++++++++++----------
doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml | 19 +++++++++++++------
src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c | 14 +++++++++-----
3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

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