On 03.05.25 17:42, Robert Treat wrote:
> I actually think this mix of VALID / ENFORCED is a little convoluted
> for end users, but I don't think the system catalog documentation is
> the best place to work that out, and I see we've also not added this
> type of extra information to other columns in the table that have
> similar restrictions, so I think removing it is the right move.
>
> As such, attached patch removes the above, and attempts some clean up
> of the documentation in ALTER TABLE to better clarify the behavior
> around valid/not valid, enforced/not enforced, and how it affects
> different constraints, with some additional literal tag formatting
> changes.
I committed the catalog.sgml change. I don't agree with some of the
other changes, such as changing foreign key to >FOREIGN KEY< etc. It
was hard to tell if there were any other changes in there that could be
considered separately from that.
