Re: Typed table DDL loose ends

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:44:53PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 21:57 -0400, Noah Misch wrote:
>> > * Inheriting from a typed table blocks further type DDL
>> >   CREATE TYPE t AS (x int);
>> >   CREATE TABLE parent OF t;
>> >   CREATE TABLE child () INHERITS (parent);
>> >   ALTER TYPE t ADD ATTRIBUTE y int CASCADE;
>> >   -- ERROR:  column must be added to child tables too
>> > We ought to just set INH_YES on the downstream command in ATTypedTableRecursion.
>> > If we get to that point, the user did choose ALTER TYPE CASCADE; it seems fair
>> > to assume he'd want inheritance recursion rather than a later error.
>>
>> Agreed.
>
> Patch attached for that.  Apart from a comment, a test case and a doc update, it
> turned out to be a one-liner.

I have committed this.

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