From 4b224011751d1d4a300a0a179fc006658c6868a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 14:32:57 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Document use of partial indexes for partial unique
 constraints
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Report by Tomáš Greif

Backpatch through 9.4
---
 doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
index 0fcd9f87062..c07f5a203dd 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
@@ -546,7 +546,9 @@ CREATE TABLE products (
 
    <para>
     Adding a unique constraint will automatically create a unique btree
-    index on the column or group of columns used in the constraint.
+    index on the column or group of columns used in the constraint. 
+    A uniqueness constraint on only some rows can be enforced by creating
+    a <link linkend="indexes-partial">partial index</link>.
    </para>
 
    <indexterm>
-- 
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