Re: doc pg_constraint.convalidated column description need update - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 4:47 AM Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net> wrote:
> >
> > I think some of those changes are worth a second stab, so here is an
> > updated patch which removes the ancillary tagging and corresponding
> > line wrappings and focuses just on the wording/grammer improvements;
> > hopefully it will be easier to make sense of.
> >
>
> hi.
>
>     <para>
> -    Scanning a large table to verify a new foreign key or check constraint
> +    Scanning a large table to verify new foreign key, check, or not
> null constraints
>      can take a long time, and other updates to the table are locked out
>      until the <command>ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT</command> command is
>      committed.  The main purpose of the <literal>NOT VALID</literal>
>
> here, it should be "not-null constraints"?
> Other than that, it looks good to me

Thanks for taking a look, and yes, I believe you are correct.


Robert Treat
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