Here's a patch for $SUBJECT. Looks like the current wording was copied from ALTER TABLE. In ALTER VIEW we correctly state that column_name must be an existing column.
-- Erik
>From 1d7accf2311f4fda2d8ef9a0485985620c5b4b39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erik Wienhold <e...@ewie.name> Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 02:30:16 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: fix column_name parameter in ALTER MATERIALIZED VIEW Parameter column_name must be an existing column because ALTER MATERIALIZED VIEW cannot add new columns. The old description was likely copied from ALTER TABLE. --- doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_materialized_view.sgml | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_materialized_view.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_materialized_view.sgml index da7ed04597..f81a7393f5 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_materialized_view.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_materialized_view.sgml @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ ALTER MATERIALIZED VIEW ALL IN TABLESPACE <replaceable class="parameter">name</r <term><replaceable class="parameter">column_name</replaceable></term> <listitem> <para> - Name of a new or existing column. + Name of an existing column. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> -- 2.45.1