Add note deprecating use of consrc.
authorTom Lane <[email protected]>
Fri, 17 Oct 2003 00:55:17 +0000 (00:55 +0000)
committerTom Lane <[email protected]>
Fri, 17 Oct 2003 00:55:17 +0000 (00:55 +0000)
doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml

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    </tgroup>
   </table>
 
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    <structfield>consrc</structfield> is not updated when referenced objects
+    change; for example, it won't track renaming of columns.  Rather than
+    relying on this field, it's best to use <function>pg_get_constraintdef()</>
+    to extract the definition of a check constraint.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+
   <note>
    <para>
     <literal>pg_class.relchecks</literal> needs to agree with the