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Prefer to use phrases like "child" instead of "partition" when describing the legacy inheritance-based partitioning. The word "partition" now has a fixed meaning for the built-in partitioning, so keeping it out of the documentation of the old method makes things clearer. Author: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> Committer: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> Backpatch of: 0c06534bd63b
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