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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">.
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The name (optionally schema-qualified) of an existing table or
view. If <literal>ONLY</> is specified, only that table is
scanned. If <literal>ONLY</> is not specified, the table and
- all its descendant tables (if any) are scanned. <literal>*</>
- can be appended to the table name to indicate that descendant
- tables are to be scanned, but in the current version, this is
- the default behavior. (In releases before 7.1,
- <literal>ONLY</> was the default behavior.) The default
- behavior can be modified by changing the <xref
+ any descendant tables are scanned. The default
+ behavior can be changed using the <xref
linkend="guc-sql-inheritance"> configuration option.
</para>
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