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Commit c15de02f authored by Tom Lane's avatar Tom Lane
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Fix inheritance description to note that not-null constraints are

inherited, per Taiki Yamaguchi.
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<chapter id="ddl">
<title>Data Definition</title>
......@@ -2055,10 +2055,9 @@ VALUES ('New York', NULL, NULL, 'NY');
</para>
<para>
Check constraints can be defined on tables within an inheritance
hierarchy. All check constraints on a parent table are
automatically inherited by all of its children. Other types of
constraints are not inherited, however.
All check constraints and not-null constraints on a parent table are
automatically inherited by its children. Other types of constraints
(unique, primary key, and foreign key constraints) are not inherited.
</para>
<para>
......@@ -2070,7 +2069,8 @@ VALUES ('New York', NULL, NULL, 'NY');
so that there is only one such column in the child table. To be merged,
columns must have the same data types, else an error is raised. The
merged column will have copies of all the check constraints coming from
any one of the column definitions it came from.
any one of the column definitions it came from, and will be marked not-null
if any of them are.
</para>
<para>
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