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    Improve documentation about PRIMARY KEY constraints. · ddcc256c
    Tom Lane authored
    Get rid of the false implication that PRIMARY KEY is exactly equivalent to
    UNIQUE + NOT NULL.  That was more-or-less true at one time in our
    implementation, but the standard doesn't say that, and we've grown various
    features (many of them required by spec) that treat a pkey differently from
    less-formal constraints.  Per recent discussion on pgsql-general.
    
    I failed to resist the temptation to do some other wordsmithing in the
    same area.
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    Improve documentation about PRIMARY KEY constraints.
    Tom Lane authored
    Get rid of the false implication that PRIMARY KEY is exactly equivalent to
    UNIQUE + NOT NULL.  That was more-or-less true at one time in our
    implementation, but the standard doesn't say that, and we've grown various
    features (many of them required by spec) that treat a pkey differently from
    less-formal constraints.  Per recent discussion on pgsql-general.
    
    I failed to resist the temptation to do some other wordsmithing in the
    same area.