> > Displace yes. It would error out if someone says > > > > ALTER TABLE ONLY... CHECK (); > > > > suggesting to use the ONLY with the CHECK. > > I'd say the behavior for that case can revert to the PostgreSQL 9.1 > behavior. > If the table has children, raise an error. Otherwise, add an inheritable > CHECK constraint, albeit one lacking inheritors at that moment. > > Ok, that sounds reasonable.
Another thing that we should consider is that if we are replacing ONLY with NO INHERIT, then instead of just making a cosmetic syntactic change, we should also replace all the is*only type of field names with noinherit for the sake of completeness and uniformity. Regards, Nikhils