Thread: Mistake in Syntax definition of ALTER TABLE

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Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/sql-altertable.html
Description:

I think there's a mistake under "and table_constraint is:" where the
different constraints are listed.
Here: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-altertable.html

The definition here allows for CHECK constraints to be deferrable when they
are not.

PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
> I think there's a mistake under "and table_constraint is:" where the
> different constraints are listed.
> Here: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-altertable.html

> The definition here allows for CHECK constraints to be deferrable when they
> are not.

It's not a mistake, we are simply not trying to make the syntax diagram
reflect that particular implementation restriction.  I doubt that making
it do so would be an improvement: we'd have to have two kinds of
column_constraint in the diagram.

            regards, tom lane