Tom Lane wrote:
> Instead of supposing (wrongly, in the general case) that the rowtype
> of an inheritance child table is binary-compatible with the rowtype of
> its parent, invent an expression node type that does the conversion
> correctly.  Fixes the new bug exhibited by Kris Shannon as well as a
> lot of old bugs that would only show up when using multiple inheritance
> or after altering the parent table.

Attached is a patch adding regression tests for this change. I'll apply 
it to HEAD later tonight or tomorrow baring any objections. I just used 
the two test cases posted in the -hackers thread; Tom, if you have any 
other test cases for this behavior in mind, just let me know.

-Neil

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• pgsql: Instead of supposing (wrongly, in the general case) that the at 2004-12-11 23:26:54 from Tom Lane

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