Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I noticed this behavior on master and it seems like a bug to me:

> postgres=# CREATE TABLE test (a float check (a > 10.2));
> CREATE TABLE
> postgres=# CREATE TABLE test_child() INHERITS(test);
> CREATE TABLE
> postgres=# ALTER TABLE test ALTER COLUMN a SET DATA TYPE numeric;
> ERROR:  constraint must be added to child tables too

Interestingly, this works in 8.3 and earlier ... but it fails as
described in all later versions.  So we broke it quite some time back.
It would be good to identify exactly what change broke it.

			regards, tom lane

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