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<term><replaceable class="PARAMETER"> table </replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- The name (possibly schema-qualified) of an existing table to alter.
+ 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 scanned, 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
+ <option>SQL_INHERITANCE</option> configuration option.
</para>
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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.)
+ before 7.1, <literal>ONLY</> was the default behavior.) The
+ default behavior can be modified by changing the
+ <option>SQL_INHERITANCE</option> configuration option.
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<term><replaceable class="PARAMETER">table</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- The name (optionally schema-qualified) of an existing table.
+ The name (optionally schema-qualified) of an existing table. If
+ <literal>ONLY</> is specified, only that table is updated. 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 scanned, 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
+ <option>SQL_INHERITANCE</option> configuration option.
</para>
</listitem>
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