On 07/11/2019 02:13, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
On 2019-Nov-06, PG Doc comments form wrote:
Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/ddl-alter.html
Description:
In 5.6.1. Adding a Column, there is a kind of example 'ALTER TABLE products
ADD COLUMN description text;'
The words 'description' and 'text' are misleading -- as according to the
formal documentation of the SQL command
(https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/sql-altertable.html), they should be
'column_name' and 'data_type'.
Well, it's an example, so "description" is the column name and "text" is
its data type. If you had a table called products, you could run that
command and it would work just fine (assuming you don't already have a
column called description, doh).
Maybe the example could be made clearer by using some other column name
and some other data type, so that they don't resemble english prose or
keywords. Maybe "alter table cities add column year_founded integer".
Do you want to propose something better than that?
A similar problem exists for removing a column, and other actions.
Let's hear your proposed changes.
Now it's explained, it is obvious!
Sorry, for the noise.
Cheers,
Gavin