From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:42:50 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Remove mention of pre-7.1 inheritance behavior from /ref pages;  keep
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Remove mention of pre-7.1 inheritance behavior from /ref pages;  keep
mentions in main documentation.
---

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml
index 812a4b5b53..5d09963969 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml
@@ -450,13 +450,10 @@ where <replaceable class="PARAMETER">action</replaceable> is one of:
        <para>
         The name (possibly schema-qualified) of an existing table to
         alter. If <literal>ONLY</> is specified, only that table is
-        altered. If <literal>ONLY</> is not specified, the table and all
-        its descendant tables (if any) are updated. <literal>*</> can be
-        appended to the table name to indicate that descendant tables are
-        to be altered, but in the current version, this is the default
-        behavior.  (In releases before 7.1, <literal>ONLY</> was the
-        default behavior.  The default can be altered by changing the
-        configuration parameter <xref linkend="guc-sql-inheritance">.)
+        altered. If <literal>ONLY</> is not specified, the table and any
+        descendant tables are altered. The default can be changed
+        using the configuration parameter <xref
+        linkend="guc-sql-inheritance">.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/select.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/select.sgml
index 030dc3c890..d287da8676 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/select.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/select.sgml
@@ -271,12 +271,8 @@ TABLE { [ ONLY ] <replaceable class="parameter">table_name</replaceable> [ * ] |
         The name (optionally schema-qualified) of an existing table or
         view.  If <literal>ONLY</> is specified, only that table is
         scanned.  If <literal>ONLY</> is not specified, the table and
-        all its descendant tables (if any) are scanned.  <literal>*</>
-        can be appended to the table name to indicate that descendant
-        tables are to be scanned, but in the current version, this is
-        the default behavior.  (In releases before 7.1,
-        <literal>ONLY</> was the default behavior.)  The default
-        behavior can be modified by changing the <xref
+        any descendant tables are scanned.  The default
+        behavior can be changed using the <xref
         linkend="guc-sql-inheritance"> configuration option.
        </para>
       </listitem>