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    Doc: document that we expect CHECK constraint conditions to be immutable. · 1f66c657
    Tom Lane authored
    This restriction is implicit in the check-only-once implementation we use
    for table and domain constraints, but it wasn't spelled out anywhere, nor
    was there any advice about how to alter a constraint's behavior safely.
    Improve that.
    
    I was also dissatisfied with the documentation of ALTER DOMAIN VALIDATE
    CONSTRAINT, which entirely failed to explain the use of that feature; and
    thence decided that ALTER TABLE VALIDATE CONSTRAINT could be documented
    better as well.
    
    Perhaps we should back-patch this, along with the related commit 36d442a2,
    but for now I refrained.
    
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/12539.1544107316@sss.pgh.pa.us
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