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Fujii Masao df927d3d08 doc: Clarify INCLUDING COMMENTS behavior in CREATE TABLE LIKE.
The documentation for the INCLUDING COMMENTS option of the LIKE clause
in CREATE TABLE was inaccurate and incomplete. It stated that comments for
copied columns, constraints, and indexes are copied, but regarding comments
on constraints in reality only comments on CHECK and NOT NULL constraints
are copied; comments on other constraints (such as primary keys) are not.
In addition, comments on extended statistics are copied, but this was not
documented.

The CREATE FOREIGN TABLE documentation had a similar omission: comments
on extended statistics are also copied, but this was not mentioned.

This commit updates the documentation to clarify the actual behavior.
The CREATE TABLE reference now specifies that comments on copied columns,
CHECK constraints, NOT NULL constraints, indexes, and extended statistics are
copied. The CREATE FOREIGN TABLE reference now notes that comments on
extended statistics are copied as well.

Backpatch to all supported versions. Documentation updates related to
CREATE FOREIGN TABLE LIKE and NOT NULL constraint comment copying are
not applied to v17 and earlier, since those features were introduced in v18.

Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matheus Alcantara <matheusssilv97@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwHSOSGcaYDvHF8EYCUCfGPjbRwGFsJ23cx5KbJ1X6JouQ@mail.gmail.com
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config Allow PG_PRINTF_ATTRIBUTE to be different in C and C++ code. 2026-02-25 11:57:26 -05:00
contrib hstore: Fix NULL pointer dereference with receive function 2026-02-17 08:41:32 +09:00
doc doc: Clarify INCLUDING COMMENTS behavior in CREATE TABLE LIKE. 2026-02-26 09:02:53 +09:00
src Fix ProcWakeup() resetting wrong waitStart field. 2026-02-26 08:50:51 +09:00
.abi-compliance-history Placate ABI checker. 2026-02-07 11:48:14 +13:00
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configure.ac Allow PG_PRINTF_ATTRIBUTE to be different in C and C++ code. 2026-02-25 11:57:26 -05:00
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meson.build Allow PG_PRINTF_ATTRIBUTE to be different in C and C++ code. 2026-02-25 11:57:26 -05:00
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PostgreSQL Database Management System

This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.

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