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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml,v 1.104 2009/02/11 21:11:15 tgl Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml,v 1.105 2009/04/15 22:42:50 momjian Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@@ -450,13 +450,10 @@ where <replaceable class="PARAMETER">action</replaceable> is one of:
<para>
The name (possibly schema-qualified) of an existing table to
alter. If <literal>ONLY</> is specified, only that table is
- altered. If <literal>ONLY</> is not specified, the table and all
- its descendant tables (if any) are updated. <literal>*</> can be
- appended to the table name to indicate that descendant tables are
- to be altered, but in the current version, this is the default
- behavior. (In releases before 7.1, <literal>ONLY</> was the
- default behavior. The default can be altered by changing the
- configuration parameter <xref linkend="guc-sql-inheritance">.)
+ altered. If <literal>ONLY</> is not specified, the table and any
+ descendant tables are altered. The default can be changed
+ using the configuration parameter <xref
+ linkend="guc-sql-inheritance">.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>