From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 21:05:23 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: docs:  remove outdated note about unique indexes
X-Git-Tag: REL9_6_BETA1~1424
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=049a7799dfce096923da27a9b0e4a3c7a0a47104;p=postgresql

docs:  remove outdated note about unique indexes

Patch by Josh Kupershmidt

Backpatch through 9.5
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/indices.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/indices.sgml
index 309fd1269b..2d131c9109 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/indices.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/indices.sgml
@@ -655,11 +655,7 @@ CREATE UNIQUE INDEX <replaceable>name</replaceable> ON <replaceable>table</repla
 
   <note>
    <para>
-    The preferred way to add a unique constraint to a table is
-    <literal>ALTER TABLE ... ADD CONSTRAINT</literal>.  The use of
-    indexes to enforce unique constraints could be considered an
-    implementation detail that should not be accessed directly.
-    One should, however, be aware that there's no need to manually
+    There's no need to manually
     create indexes on unique columns; doing so would just duplicate
     the automatically-created index.
    </para>