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Tom Lane a0b012a1ab Rearrange ALTER TABLE syntax processing as per my recent proposal: the 
grammar allows ALTER TABLE/INDEX/SEQUENCE/VIEW interchangeably for all
subforms of those commands, and then we sort out what's really legal
at execution time.  This allows the ALTER SEQUENCE/VIEW reference pages
to fully document all the ALTER forms available for sequences and views
respectively, and eliminates a longstanding cause of confusion for users.

The net effect is that the following forms are allowed that weren't before:
	ALTER SEQUENCE OWNER TO
	ALTER VIEW ALTER COLUMN SET/DROP DEFAULT
	ALTER VIEW OWNER TO
	ALTER VIEW SET SCHEMA
(There's no actual functionality gain here, but formerly you had to say
ALTER TABLE instead.)

Interestingly, the grammar tables actually get smaller, probably because
there are fewer special cases to keep track of.

I did not disallow using ALTER TABLE for these operations.  Perhaps we
should, but there's a backwards-compatibility issue if we do; in fact
it would break existing pg_dump scripts.  I did however tighten up
ALTER SEQUENCE and ALTER VIEW to reject non-sequences and non-views
in the new cases as well as a couple of cases where they didn't before.

The patch doesn't change pg_dump to use the new syntaxes, either.
 		2008-06-15 01:25:54 +00:00
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ref Rearrange ALTER TABLE syntax processing as per my recent proposal: the 2008-06-15 01:25:54 +00:00
Makefile Make XML building work silently on VPATH builds (untested on regular builds). 2008-06-10 00:19:32 +00:00
acronyms.sgml cvsweb lives on anoncvs.postgresql.org these days. 2008-03-18 16:05:07 +00:00
adminpack.sgml Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation. 2007-12-06 04:12:10 +00:00
advanced.sgml Consistenly use colons before '<programlisting>' blocks, where 2007-02-01 00:28:19 +00:00
arch-dev.sgml Change 'merge sort join', a phrase we use nowhere else, to the more 2007-12-12 06:23:27 +00:00
array.sgml Add generate_subscripts, a series-generation function which generates an 2008-04-28 14:48:58 +00:00
backup.sgml Document that continuous archiving backup can be used for cases where 2008-04-09 02:52:04 +00:00
biblio.sgml Update URL for "Generalized Partial Indexes" paper to point to a cached 2007-02-08 04:31:37 +00:00
bki.sgml Consistenly use colons before '<programlisting>' blocks, where 2007-02-01 00:28:19 +00:00
btree-gist.sgml Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation. 2007-12-06 04:12:10 +00:00
catalogs.sgml Change the rules for inherited CHECK constraints to be essentially the same 2008-05-09 23:32:05 +00:00
charset.sgml Move client encoding libpq function docs into libpq doc section, and 2008-03-06 15:37:56 +00:00
chkpass.sgml Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation. 2007-12-06 04:12:10 +00:00
client-auth.sgml Put spaces after "RFC". 2008-01-05 13:17:00 +00:00
config.sgml In log_filename documentation, mention that strftime is not used directly to 2008-06-14 21:59:59 +00:00
contacts.sgml Make $PostgreSQL CVS tags consistent for SGML files. 2006-03-10 19:10:50 +00:00
contrib-spi.sgml Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation. 2007-12-06 04:12:10 +00:00
contrib.sgml Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation. 2007-12-06 04:12:10 +00:00
cube.sgml Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation. 2007-12-06 04:12:10 +00:00
cvs.sgml Fix typo, noted by Stefan Kaltenbrunner. 2008-04-21 11:06:13 +00:00
datatype.sgml Extend GIN to support partial-match searches, and extend tsquery to support 2008-05-16 16:31:02 +00:00
datetime.sgml Update docs to reflect the fact that we can now deal with DST rules 2008-02-16 21:51:04 +00:00
dblink.sgml Implement current_query(), that shows the currently executing query. 2008-04-04 16:57:21 +00:00
ddl.sgml Change the rules for inherited CHECK constraints to be essentially the same 2008-05-09 23:32:05 +00:00
dfunc.sgml Consistenly use colons before '<programlisting>' blocks, where 2007-02-01 00:28:19 +00:00
dict-int.sgml Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation. 2007-12-06 04:12:10 +00:00
dict-xsyn.sgml Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation. 2007-12-06 04:12:10 +00:00
diskusage.sgml Update documentation on may/can/might: 2007-01-31 20:56:20 +00:00
dml.sgml Entity-ify a passel of & < > characters. Per gripe from Devrim. 2007-12-03 23:49:51 +00:00
docguide.sgml Update required TeX settings 2007-12-28 11:13:55 +00:00
earthdistance.sgml Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation. 2007-12-06 04:12:10 +00:00
ecpg.sgml Use macro to document size of ecpg sqlerrmc string. 2008-06-12 19:15:40 +00:00
errcodes.sgml Support SQL/PSM-compatible CASE statement in plpgsql. 2008-05-15 22:39:49 +00:00
extend.sgml Only use SGML indexterm "zone" when we want to get the entire section. 2007-08-31 21:33:48 +00:00
external-projects.sgml Clean up some now-obsolete references to GBorg. 2007-11-14 01:58:18 +00:00
features.sgml Update SQL conformance information about XML features. 2007-02-03 17:59:36 +00:00
filelist.sgml Add SGML documentation for contrib/spi and contrib/test_parser. 2007-12-03 04:18:47 +00:00
fixrtf Add CVS tag lines to files that were lacking them. 2006-03-11 04:38:42 +00:00
func.sgml Make to_char()'s localized month/day names depend on LC_TIME, not LC_MESSAGES. 2008-05-19 18:08:16 +00:00
fuzzystrmatch.sgml Add a variant of the Levenshtein string-distance function that lets the user 2008-04-03 21:13:07 +00:00
geqo.sgml Provide a bit more high-level documentation for the GEQO planner. 2007-07-21 04:02:41 +00:00
gin.sgml Extend GIN to support partial-match searches, and extend tsquery to support 2008-05-16 16:31:02 +00:00
gist.sgml Push index operator lossiness determination down to GIST/GIN opclass 2008-04-14 17:05:34 +00:00
high-availability.sgml Improve table reference 2008-01-30 10:49:55 +00:00
history.sgml Add note on PostgreSQL vs. Postgres. 2007-10-30 23:06:06 +00:00
hstore.sgml Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation. 2007-12-06 04:12:10 +00:00
indexam.sgml Push index operator lossiness determination down to GIST/GIN opclass 2008-04-14 17:05:34 +00:00
indices.sgml Alter the xxx_pattern_ops opclasses to use the regular equality operator of 2008-05-27 00:13:09 +00:00
info.sgml Remove mention of /contrib README files from documentation because files 2008-01-09 02:37:45 +00:00
information_schema.sgml Fix markup. 2007-02-20 23:14:19 +00:00
install-win32.sgml Fix duplicate word, per Guillaume Lelarge. 2008-03-14 17:28:23 +00:00
installation.sgml Fix missing "not", per Frank Millman (bug #4212). 2008-06-05 19:56:09 +00:00
intagg.sgml Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation. 2007-12-10 05:32:51 +00:00
intarray.sgml Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation. 2007-12-10 05:32:51 +00:00
intro.sgml Update documentation on may/can/might: 2007-01-31 20:56:20 +00:00
isn.sgml Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation. 2007-12-10 05:32:51 +00:00
keywords.sgml Update key words table for 8.3 2008-01-30 10:37:36 +00:00
legal.sgml Update copyrights in source tree to 2008. 2008-01-01 19:46:01 +00:00
libpq.sgml Marginal improvements to the documentation for PGOPTIONS. 2008-06-01 16:23:08 +00:00
lo.sgml Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation. 2007-12-06 04:12:10 +00:00
lobj.sgml Add server side lo_import(filename, oid) function. 2008-03-22 01:55:14 +00:00
ltree.sgml Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation. 2007-12-10 05:32:51 +00:00
maintenance.sgml spell checker run 2007-11-28 15:42:31 +00:00
manage-ag.sgml Move NFS section into "Creating Cluster" documentation section because 2007-11-08 15:21:03 +00:00
mk_feature_tables.pl Add CVS tag lines to files that were lacking them. 2006-03-11 04:38:42 +00:00
monitoring.sgml Add support for tracking call counts and elapsed runtime for user-defined 2008-05-15 00:17:41 +00:00
mvcc.sgml Update "Conflicting lock modes" to show as conflict, add 2007-02-18 01:21:49 +00:00
nls.sgml Consistenly use colons before '<programlisting>' blocks, where 2007-02-01 00:28:19 +00:00
notation.sgml Make $PostgreSQL CVS tags consistent for SGML files. 2006-03-10 19:10:50 +00:00
oid2name.sgml Remove the -P options of oid2name and pgbench, as they are security 2007-12-11 02:31:49 +00:00
pageinspect.sgml Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation. 2007-12-10 05:32:51 +00:00
perform.sgml Update examples in planstats.sgml for 8.3, and improve some aspects of 2007-12-28 21:03:31 +00:00
pgbench.sgml Add -M (query mode) option per ITAGAKI Takahiro 2008-03-19 03:33:21 +00:00
pgbuffercache.sgml Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation. 2007-12-10 05:32:51 +00:00
pgcrypto.sgml Typo fix. 2008-01-17 14:34:45 +00:00
pgfreespacemap.sgml Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation. 2007-12-10 05:32:51 +00:00
pgrowlocks.sgml Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation. 2007-12-10 05:32:51 +00:00
pgstandby.sgml Add Simon Riggs' email address. 2008-05-07 18:48:40 +00:00
pgstattuple.sgml Adjust pgstatindex() to give correct answers for indexes larger than 2008-03-21 03:23:30 +00:00
pgtrgm.sgml Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation. 2007-12-10 05:32:51 +00:00
planstats.sgml Update examples in planstats.sgml for 8.3, and improve some aspects of 2007-12-28 21:03:31 +00:00
plhandler.sgml Remove emacs info from footer of SGML files. 2006-09-16 00:30:20 +00:00
plperl.sgml Remove mention of DBD::PgSPI, which is unmaintained and generally unnecessary. 2008-04-10 15:16:46 +00:00
plpgsql.sgml Support SQL/PSM-compatible CASE statement in plpgsql. 2008-05-15 22:39:49 +00:00
plpython.sgml Support statement-level ON TRUNCATE triggers. Simon Riggs 2008-03-28 00:21:56 +00:00
pltcl.sgml Support statement-level ON TRUNCATE triggers. Simon Riggs 2008-03-28 00:21:56 +00:00
postgres.sgml Move Client Authentication right after Server Configuration in docs. 2008-05-07 16:36:43 +00:00
problems.sgml Update documentation on may/can/might: 2007-01-31 20:56:20 +00:00
protocol.sgml Some small editorialization on the protocol documentation for GSSAPI/SSPI 2008-02-08 18:18:05 +00:00
queries.sgml Allow AS to be omitted when specifying an output column name in SELECT 2008-02-15 22:17:06 +00:00
query.sgml Consistenly use colons before '<programlisting>' blocks, where 2007-02-01 00:28:19 +00:00
reference.ced
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reference.sgml Remove ipcclean utility command --- didn't work on all Unixes and on 2008-03-27 17:24:16 +00:00
regress.sgml Copy refint.so and autoinc.so into the src/test/regress directory during 2008-05-30 00:04:32 +00:00
release.sgml Update release notes for ALTER AGGREGATE fix. 2008-06-08 21:46:07 +00:00
rowtypes.sgml Consistenly use colons before '<programlisting>' blocks, where 2007-02-01 00:28:19 +00:00
rules.sgml Wording cleanup for error messages. Also change can't -> cannot. 2007-02-01 19:10:30 +00:00
runtime.sgml Code review for recent patch to terminate online backup during shutdown: 2008-04-26 22:47:40 +00:00
seg.sgml Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation. 2007-12-06 04:12:10 +00:00
sources.sgml Add a new ereport auxiliary function errdetail_log(), which works the same as 2008-03-24 18:08:47 +00:00
spi.sgml Add SPI-level support for executing SQL commands with one-time-use plans, 2008-04-01 03:09:30 +00:00
sql.sgml Allow AS to be omitted when specifying an output column name in SELECT 2008-02-15 22:17:06 +00:00
sslinfo.sgml Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation. 2007-12-06 04:12:10 +00:00
standalone-install.sgml
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start.sgml Update psql startup banner to be shorter, suggest "help" for help. 2008-05-16 17:17:00 +00:00
storage.sgml Remove the recently added USE_SEGMENTED_FILES option, and indeed remove all 2008-05-02 01:08:27 +00:00
stylesheet-common.xsl Reorganize XSLT stylesheet support. Put common things into a separate 2006-12-10 16:01:06 +00:00
stylesheet-fo.xsl Reorganize XSLT stylesheet support. Put common things into a separate 2006-12-10 16:01:06 +00:00
stylesheet-hh.xsl Reorganize XSLT stylesheet support. Put common things into a separate 2006-12-10 16:01:06 +00:00
stylesheet.css
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stylesheet.dsl Disable LOT for the time being because of TeX problems 2007-12-28 11:14:19 +00:00
stylesheet.xsl Reorganize XSLT stylesheet support. Put common things into a separate 2006-12-10 16:01:06 +00:00
syntax.sgml Arrange for an explicit cast applied to an ARRAY[] constructor to be applied 2008-03-20 21:42:48 +00:00
tablefunc.sgml Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation. 2007-12-06 04:12:10 +00:00
test-parser.sgml Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation. 2007-12-06 04:12:10 +00:00
textsearch.sgml Extend GIN to support partial-match searches, and extend tsquery to support 2008-05-16 16:31:02 +00:00
trigger.sgml Support statement-level ON TRUNCATE triggers. Simon Riggs 2008-03-28 00:21:56 +00:00
tsearch2.sgml Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation. 2007-12-06 04:12:10 +00:00
typeconv.sgml Fix select_common_type() so that it can select a domain type, if all inputs 2007-11-26 16:46:51 +00:00
user-manag.sgml Consistenly use colons before '<programlisting>' blocks, where 2007-02-01 00:28:19 +00:00
uuid-ossp.sgml Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation. 2007-12-06 04:12:10 +00:00
vacuumlo.sgml Make documentation of -W options more accurate and uniform. 2007-12-11 19:57:32 +00:00
wal.sgml Extend yesterday's patch making BLCKSZ and RELSEG_SIZE configurable to also 2008-05-02 19:52:37 +00:00
xaggr.sgml Consistenly use colons before '<programlisting>' blocks, where 2007-02-01 00:28:19 +00:00
xfunc.sgml Add an example of a SQL function with output parameters returning 2007-11-10 20:14:36 +00:00
xindex.sgml Extend GIN to support partial-match searches, and extend tsquery to support 2008-05-16 16:31:02 +00:00
xml2.sgml Fix contrib/xml2 makefile to not override CFLAGS, and in passing make it 2008-05-08 16:49:37 +00:00
xoper.sgml spell checker run 2007-11-28 15:42:31 +00:00
xplang.sgml Consistenly use colons before '<programlisting>' blocks, where 2007-02-01 00:28:19 +00:00
xtypes.sgml Change the declaration of struct varlena so that the length word is 2008-02-23 19:11:45 +00:00