Add note deprecating use of consrc.

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Documentation of the system catalogs, directed toward PostgreSQL developers Documentation of the system catalogs, directed toward PostgreSQL developers
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<chapter id="catalogs"> <chapter id="catalogs">
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</tgroup> </tgroup>
</table> </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> <note>
<para> <para>
<literal>pg_class.relchecks</literal> needs to agree with the <literal>pg_class.relchecks</literal> needs to agree with the