Re: DOCS - CREATE PUBLICATION wording re 'ONLY' for partitioned tables.

> On Oct 22, 2026, at 16:14, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2026 at 2:20 PM Takeshi Ideriha
> <iderihatakeshi(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Thank you for addressing my suggestion. V3 looks good to me. I also
>> believe the same wording works.
>
> Thanks for updating the patch!
>
> + For a partitioned table, <literal>ONLY</literal> and <literal>*</literal>
> + have no effect: its partitions are always implicitly considered part of
> + the publication, so they do not need to be added explicitly.
>
> In ALTER PUBLICATION, "table_name" also applies to DROP and EXCEPT,
> so seems the original wording needs to account for those cases.
> How about:
>
> For a partitioned table, <literal>ONLY</literal> and <literal>*</literal>
> have no effect. When a partitioned table is included in a publication,
> its partitions are implicitly included as well and need not be added
> explicitly. For tables specified in <literal>EXCEPT</literal>, see the
> description of
> <link linkend="sql-createpublication-params-for-except-table"><literal>EXCEPT</literal></link>
> in <xref linkend="sql-createpublication"/>.
>

I like the first part of your suggested change, “when a partitioned table is included in a publication”, but I don't think we need to mention EXCEPT separately. Maybe we could just replace “not be added explicitly” with “not be included explicitly”? I think that should cover the EXCEPT case as well.

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