The name (possibly schema-qualified) of an existing table to
alter. If ONLY> is specified, only that table is
- altered. If ONLY> is not specified, the table and all
- its descendant tables (if any) are updated. *> 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, ONLY> was the
- default behavior. The default can be altered by changing the
- configuration parameter .)
+ altered. If ONLY> is not specified, the table and any
+ descendant tables are altered. The default can be changed
+ using the configuration parameter
+ linkend="guc-sql-inheritance">.
The name (optionally schema-qualified) of an existing table or
view. If ONLY> is specified, only that table is
scanned. If ONLY> is not specified, the table and
- all its descendant tables (if any) are scanned. *>
- 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,
- ONLY> was the default behavior.) The default
- behavior can be modified by changing the
+ any descendant tables are scanned. The default
+ behavior can be changed using the
linkend="guc-sql-inheritance"> configuration option.