Re: [HACKERS] ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com>
Cc: tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN
Date: 2002-10-14 04:34:52
Message-ID: 200210140434.g9E4Yqj12166@candle.pha.pa.us
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Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:

http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches

I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.

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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> En Fri, 4 Oct 2002 18:21:06 -0400
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com> escribi?:
>
> > Huh, I don't know where I got the idea you were (or someone else was?)
> > in the position that attislocal should be reset. I'll clean everything
> > up and submit the patch I had originally made.
>
> All right, this is it. This patch merely checks if child tables have
> the column. If atttypid and atttypmod are the same, the attributes'
> attinhcount is incremented; else the operation is aborted. If child
> tables don't have the column, recursively add it.
>
> attislocal is not touched in any case.
>
> --
> Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]atentus.com>)
> "El Maquinismo fue proscrito so pena de cosquilleo hasta la muerte"
> (Ijon Tichy en Viajes, Stanislaw Lem)

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