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@@ -450,13 +450,10 @@ where <replaceable class="PARAMETER">action</replaceable> is one of:
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450 | 450 | <para>
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451 | 451 | The name (possibly schema-qualified) of an existing table to
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452 | 452 | alter. If <literal>ONLY</> is specified, only that table is
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| - altered. If <literal>ONLY</> is not specified, the table and all |
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| - its descendant tables (if any) are updated. <literal>*</> can be |
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| - appended to the table name to indicate that descendant tables are |
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| - to be altered, but in the current version, this is the default |
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| - behavior. (In releases before 7.1, <literal>ONLY</> was the |
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| - default behavior. The default can be altered by changing the |
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| - configuration parameter <xref linkend="guc-sql-inheritance">.) |
| 453 | + altered. If <literal>ONLY</> is not specified, the table and any |
| 454 | + descendant tables are altered. The default can be changed |
| 455 | + using the configuration parameter <xref |
| 456 | + linkend="guc-sql-inheritance">. |
460 | 457 | </para>
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461 | 458 | </listitem>
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462 | 459 | </varlistentry>
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