Doc: remove long-obsolete advice about generated constraint names.

It's been twenty years since we generated constraint names that
look like "$N".  So this advice about double-quoting such names
is well past its sell-by date, and now it merely seems confusing.

Reported-by: Yaroslav Saburov <y.saburov@gmail.com>
Author: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/174393459040.678.17810152410419444783@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 13
REL_14_STABLE
Tom Lane 5 months ago
parent 0434033e8b
commit 95e83859b9
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      doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml

@ -1470,9 +1470,6 @@ ALTER TABLE products ALTER COLUMN product_no SET NOT NULL;
<programlisting>
ALTER TABLE products DROP CONSTRAINT some_name;
</programlisting>
(If you are dealing with a generated constraint name like <literal>$2</literal>,
don't forget that you'll need to double-quote it to make it a valid
identifier.)
</para>
<para>

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